Search results for legislation as code
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LabPlus: Reusable component - Family Services Directory
Found in Blog / Published 02 March 2018 / By Pia Andrews ,
TL;DRThis blog post is a collaboration between the Service Innovation Lab, the Family Services Directory team from the Ministry of Social Development (MSD), the SmartStart team in the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) and Catalyst IT (the SmartStart developer). Our many thanks also to the data.govt.nz team for their support in making this success story. Please see the new SmartStart “Services near me” functionality for the first use case of our first reusable component from the Service Innova…
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Google Analytics screencast — Tip #4: jQuery Event Tracking
Found in Blog / Published 25 September 2015 / By Nathan Wall ,
A walk-through of the javascript we use to do some of our event tracking.
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Customer usability testing
Found in Blog / Published 19 February 2020 / By Valerie Poort ,
Department of Internal Affairs senior service designer Valerie Poort discusses the customer usability testing undertaken before the launch of a new online application service for citizenship.
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LabPlus: Exploring API Security
Found in Blog / Published 12 February 2018 / By Nadia Webster ,
TL;DRBecause APIs are central to our work, the Service Innovation Lab has been working closely with the Government Enterprise Architects Group in the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) to explore future security and control models for APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) that allow greater resilience, flexibility and ability to adapt quickly to genuine risks in a rapidly changing environment. We are running a "Tech Check" event tomorrow and we welcome you to join us in this disc…
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Google Tag Manager: Why it’s the new hotness and how not to get burned
Found in Blog / Published 09 October 2015 / By Giles Boutel ,
For many, Google Analytics (GA) has become a de facto standard for web stats. It doesn’t cost anything, it’s easy to implement, and it will send you a lovely graph-laden PDF for reading, printing or framing, and to tell your boss how your website is doing.
But GA has some disadvantages:
GA tracks page-views based on URLs for pages that have the code embedded. If you want to track special activity like video watches or outward link clicks, you either have to place code in the HTML for each item… -
Lab+: Norming and performing
Found in Blog / Published 12 May 2017 / By Pia Andrews ,
TL;DRWe have put together a draft Lab+ work plan to help you better understand what we are trying to do. Please let us know what you think and we will update the plan as we go. We suggest you work through the information pack, but below is most of the content for convenience and discovery.
Finalising our goals, approach and outcomesThe basicsLife is about people, not agencies. When people contact government they usually want to do something broader than the agency’s scope, but often services re… -
Colour and contrast
Found in Standards & guidance / Content, design and UX / Accessibility / Colour and contrast
It’s important to consider how you use colour in your online content (web pages, PDFs, or other online material) to ensure that people with colour blindness, colour vision deficiencies, partial sight or low vision, can access all the information in that content.
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Govt.nz: New templates for new content
Found in Blog / Published 27 June 2016 / By Meg Howie ,
The Govt.nz team recently made some changes to Govt.nz. You can see these changes in the information we’re providing around births, deaths and marriages, and in our new content about health services relevant to older people (which can be found throughout the health hub).
A new type of contentThrough these pilots we’ve introduced significantly more information onto the site. It’s also different from most of our existing information. Rather than ‘signpost’ pages that give a brief summary then poi… -
A/B/C/D/Evolving the Govt.nz homepage design
Found in Blog / Published 05 December 2014 / By Nathan Wall ,
When Govt.nz launched in July this year we’d already completed several rounds of user research. The design of the site and the layout of the homepage had changed a lot since we launched the first beta version the previous year.
How users are getting to our homepageAfter several months, we started to see some interesting patterns in our website analytics. A lot of people were searching Google using terms like:
“new zealand government” (and various alternative versions)
“nz government website”
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