User testing the alpha Last week, the alpha of the Digital Marketplace was released internally to GDS. In the last round of lab research, we could now observe people using the real Digital Marketplace for the first time. Search needs …
Chris Porter is Technical Architect and Senior Developer on the Digital Marketplace. Providing a technology product that can be changed quickly is a key goal for the Digital Marketplace development team. The agile approach, which is core to the work …
You may already know that the Digital Marketplace is designed to be the new home for the G-Cloud and Digital Services frameworks. What you may not know is that we have assembled a multidisciplinary team here at Aviation House. The …
We’re making real progress
At the Government Digital Service, we’ve developed a set of ten design principles which apply to all the work we do here. They inform not only how an individual service ‘looks and feels’, but also the fundamental product design and …
On Thursday 17th April, we invited three suppliers and three buyers to take part in a user research session to test the current build of the Digital Marketplace. Two out of three buyers hadn’t used the CloudStore before, relying on …
G-Cloud is about more than sales; it is about transforming the way the public sector buys cloud-based services, and it is one of the frameworks supporting a wider business IT transformation. The Cloud First policy sets out that cloud solutions …
We’re now at the stage where we’re putting our prototype of the new Digital Marketplace in front of buyers. Last week we held a user research session and invited five buyers to start to play with the new design and …
As we approach Alpha, we’re busily testing and improving some of the new features Stuart discussed in a previous post. I’m going to build on that to discuss some of the exciting new features and improvements we’re bringing to the …
From today, this blog will be used to talk about the next phase for G-Cloud and Digital Services frameworks. We think it's very important that we have a single platform, through which we can discuss the G-Cloud framework; Digital Services …