Product Manager - HMRC Transition to GOV.UK (April 2013 to April 2014) @scedwar
The Content Planner is a tool we’ve built to make the HMRC website transition to GOV.UK easier and more efficient. It gives HMRC and the HMRC transition team in GDS a shared space to create, agree and comment on content …
HMRC have issued a press statement regarding the outage earlier today: HMRC is carrying out some preparatory work as part of our plans to transition content from the HMRC website to GOV.UK. Unfortunately visitors to the HMRC website were automatically …
The HMRC transition is the largest agency transition to GOV.UK. The HMRC website has: 13 million page views each week (this figure excludes page views on the online services that require the user to log in); 100,000 pages of content; …
User research has highlighted some weaknesses in how we currently label documents on GOV.UK. This is particularly apparent for specialist users of HMRC content. We use labels on GOV.UK like publications, guidance and announcements whereas professionals who are searching for a piece …
Earlier this afternoon GOV.UK released a new feature that shows a list of all the new and updated documents that have been published by a department or tagged to a policy topic, topical event or world location. Users of the …
We've blogged a few times about some of the many user needs workshops we've held on the HMRC manuals, with users inside and outside HMRC: Meeting the tax professional bodies (August 2013) Meeting the Tax Information Group and iterating our designs (September …
On Thursday 5 December, the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be making his Autumn Statement to Parliament. It is a significant political event with information published by multiple departments including HM Treasury and HM Revenue & Customs. In the past, …
Several UK tax publishers have been in touch with us to learn more about how the transition of HMRC to GOV.UK will affect them. There are many publishers who use and build upon content published by HMRC to create products relied …
We have already blogged about our work on understanding the user needs of the public users of the manuals but we haven't yet talked about the internal (HMRC) users of the manuals. Yesterday we had a joint workshop with HMRC to look …
We've identified a bug when users try to bookmark the latest consultations (or publications) on GOV.UK. We've started working on a fix for this and other improvements to the date filtering. In the meantime there is a simple manual change …