I joined the Cabinet Office as Creative Lead for online transactions at the Government Digital Service last year. We’re doing more than redesigning a website; we’re revolutionising the way government interacts with the public, making it painless for you to apply for a passport, claim benefits, register to vote, or file your tax return (well, it’s all relative!) and saving a tonne of public money in the process. Read more…
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Lazy web designers undermine print stylesheets
Since the dawn of time, web designers have had the tools to provide “print stylesheets” with their websites – invisible instructions that tell a user’s computer how to format the page when it’s printed, rather than displayed on a screen.
A couple of things my 5 year old boy would love
From Fuckyouverymuch and Moist Production respectively.
Many tracks fail (with no error) when importing thousands of songs into iTunes (Mac)
I recently had a mammouth clean-up of my iTunes libraries, which basically involved bringing everything together in one new location on an external HD, and re-importing 10,098 tracks into iTunes (that’s about 59GB of music). Problem was, I ended up with a few thousand less tracks actually in iTunes than expected, no matter which obvious [...]
The Government Digital Service is hiring!
I started work for the new Government Digital Service (GDS) earlier this year. We’re revolutionising the way citizens interact with UK Government, by creating a cross-Government family of online transactions which are easier to use than the traditional offline versions. The department (part of the Cabinet Office) is taking a refreshingly revolutionary approach, and we’re [...]
Social login + social history
Estimated reading time: just a minute! More and more sites are using third party authentication to set up an account or sign in to their services. Typically, I’ve experienced this as “login with Facebook”, but some offer many different login options: Google, Twitter, Open ID, Windows Live…
