U.K. government website wins Design of the Year award.

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Gov.UK, which combines all of the British government's websites into a single domain, won the overall prize in the prestigious Design Museum Design of the Year award for 2013. (Last year's winner was the London 2012 Olympic Torch.) The jury unanimously agreed that the site, designed by the U.K. Government Digital Service, has a well-thought-out yet understated design, making the user experience simpler, clearer, and faster, and is one of the leading government websites in the world.

Using Gov.UK, stakeholders go to one place to find out what's happening inside government, in a clear and consistent format. Gov.UK makes life better for rail(ions of people coping with everyday chores, from getting a new passport to paying their taxes, according to the Design Museum...