By: James Geddes
Yes! I love it. Thank you. Search works in precisely two cases: (1) you know exactly what you're looking for (personal desktop); (2) there's some clever way to order the results (Google PageRank)....
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'Rubbish' doesn't feel like it should belong in 'Housing'. On the general design, it reminds me of a bad council website from about 4 years ago. That's probably not a good thing!
View ArticleBy: Sara Head
I know elderly and disabled people who are 'the average person with average IT skills'. I don't think being elderly or disabled or visually impaired or etc. means you have any fewer IT skills than...
View ArticleBy: Dan
Sorry was meant to say special attention needs to be given to the needs of diffrent groups of potential users i.e font size and colour control for the visual impairment etc.
View ArticleBy: Working towards launch | Dafydd Vaughan
[...] past week, we’ve released (and written about) the new homepage design, updated browse categories and the removal of the search ‘auto suggest‘ feature. [...]
View ArticleBy: Finding your way around GOV.UK | Government Digital Service
[...] user feedback was “No browse navigation”. Once we tested our assumptions about search and the homepage against users it was clear we had to iterate towards something better with browse too. I...
View ArticleBy: Jon Flitton (@Flitmonkey)
In the old days we had these things called books. At the front was a contents page so you could find the relevant section. Then later on - i guess - someone added, at the back, the index where you...
View ArticleBy: Web Technologies | gov.uk goes old school
[...] The reason for this dramatic, step is based on user testing and the discovery that: The people who visit the homepage do so because they are lost. They’re not on the right page, and they’re not...
View ArticleBy: O que funciona para o Google pode não funcionar para você | Neurônio Digital
[...] Tradução livre de trecho do artigo Why we’ve changed the homepage [...]
View ArticleBy: Chris Jones (@MyFavouriteCake)
I'm not sure there are "infinitely better ways to allow browsing" as you state. If there were, then I'm sure you could provide some more examples. Or any of us could for that manner, with proof of...
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