Keeping the conversation going
One of the most common questions we’re asked when we’re doing user research for the Digital Marketplace is “When is this going live?”
Digital Marketplace
Sprint highlights: 13 - 25 August
Opening up Digital Marketplace for buyers We have two more data migration stories remaining until we can officially open Digital Marketplace for business. As soon as these have passed Quality Assurance we will be giving Digital Marketplace a green light.
Being found; Selling your service to government
One of the biggest challenges we have encountered while building the Digital Marketplace is this: no matter how much we improve the search technology, some service descriptions make it very hard for buyers to understand what a service does and …
Moving from CloudStore to Digital Marketplace
As you hopefully now know, Digital Marketplace will replace CloudStore and be the new home for G-Cloud services.
Sprint highlights: 30 July - 12 August
We’ve started publishing sprint highlights as a way to keep you up to date on what we’ve delivered in the last two weeks. The highlights comes from our team Show and Tell and are just a part of many updates, …
Searching or requirement filtering
Exploring search for the Digital Marketplace from Digital Marketplace Our interaction designer Rebecca Cottrell talked about designing search for the Digital Marketplace, in a 5-minute talk at an all-staff event in June. Here are a few main points Rebecca talked …
This week in user research
Understanding buyers The Digital Marketplace user research has moved into a regular weekly session now, as we prepare for our beta release, and we have been understanding more about buyers and their behaviour. We’ve written in the past that buying …
July update
I am delighted to be able to tell you that the June G-Cloud sales figures have gone through the £200m barrier with a total spend to date of £217,455,674.39.
The next milestone: Digital Marketplace private beta
Today we have reached another milestone on our way to a fully functional Digital Marketplace. Supplier focused private beta The private beta allows us to start focusing on support for suppliers. In order to run an effective alpha we imported …
Making the most of your time in the lab
Over the last few months, I’ve been regularly watching Digital Marketplace user research in the lab. It’s been a great way to get up to speed with the project, and understand where we are, and where we need to be.