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Doing the hard work to make it simple

Posted by: Henry Charge, Posted on: 7 August 2014 - Categories: Experimental

...difficult is where they input the details of their previous jobs. In particular, the start and end dates of those jobs. The majority of our users have just left school...

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Asking for a date of birth

Posted by: Joe Lanman, Posted on: 5 December 2013 - Categories: Likely to change

You can read the latest guidance on this subject in the Service Manual. On the Register to vote project, we have been testing different ways of asking for a date of birth. We began with three drop-downs: This tested ok, …

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