Digital by Default

Category: beta

  • The challenge of ‘user driven development’

      It has been 18 months now since we officially started the project to build a new ONS website – the most consistent thing throughout our initial discovery, the alpha and now the latter days of the beta has been a commitment to the principle of being ‘user focused’. Over the life of the project…

  • Beta breather..

    Beta breather..

    Earlier this week we (very) quietly made an early version of the ONS Beta site public. It is a true Beta – in the sense that it remains experimental and subject to changes at no notice. To be honest it is a little ‘under proofed’ still even for a Beta but I was determined to…

  • My Ambitions for the Beta

    My Ambitions for the Beta

    The development team is in the building and the tip tapping of coding on custom keyboards fills the air so it is about time I tried to articulate some personal ambitions for this project. [These aren’t necessarily the corporate objectives – though there is some cross over and clearly our commitment to ‘user driven development’…