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That is their eventual plan. The purposefully haven't moved everything over at once because that would require a colossal effort. They are aiming to have moved
by samwillis 14y ago
That is their eventual plan. The purposefully haven't moved everything over at once because that would require a colossal effort. They are aiming to have moved all government websites over to the platform by the end of 2014. Lots of time to do it without expanding the team to the point were they lose the innovative thinking.
- aes256 14y agoFair enough. In its present state I just don't see gov.uk adding much value to users beyond collating fairly mundane information in one place with a nice interface. It's nice, but I can't see any reason I'd find myself using the site. If I want to actually use a government service, I don't see why I'd go to gov.uk first when Google can just as easily deliver me to the relevant godawful hellhole on Directgov, whereupon I will find myself wondering why I even bothered in the first place.
- johneth 14y agoI think that's one of the main motivations behind it (the realisation that most people enter [government] websites via search engines). They've designed the pages to be clearer for those use cases - you can read their thoughts and motivations in their design principles - https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples (which are extremely good).