As you know, here at PDS we’re busy building a new website. As part of the discovery work the content team are doing, we recently carried out a couple of short workshops about the content management system (CMS).
This is the Data & Search team's third set of fortnight notes. The idea is to keep an ongoing, public record of what we're doing. We'll iterate the notes with a view to making them better over time. We'd appreciate other feedback …
This week we've been continuing our work on topics and members, and started to look at long-form content with stakeholders in the Commons, Lords and POST. Kheira has been planning user research on Members for the next three sprints, recruiting participants …
As many of you will be only too familiar with, recruiting people into technical roles can be particularly challenging. Here at PDS we're dedicated to finding better ways to deal with these challenges, that's why we've decided to put together …
This week’s focus was mainly on the Topics prototype. Jack trialled Marvel app to produce and test this prototype and Kheira conducted usability testing sessions with 8 participants to test it. Ganesh and Kheira had a discussion with Diversity and Inclusion team …
TL;DR there's a much shorter presentation here. Since April I've been working as part of the Data and Search team in the Parliamentary Digital Service. It's a new team so we've spent some time figuring out what we do, what …
This is the Data & Search team's second set of fortnight notes. The idea is to keep an ongoing, public record of what we're doing. We'll iterate the notes with a view to making them better over time. We'd appreciate other feedback …
Some readers might know who we are, but I’m sure that many still don’t know. So, this post aims to answer a few existential questions about the (Corporate) Data team that you may have. So, where did you come from …
This week we’ve been continuing to explore how to present the work of Parliament through topics to the public. Following on from workshops last week Kheira and Jack met with the Commons inquiry service to understand the tasks people try …
Last week the Parliamentary Digital Service had the pleasure of hosting codebar. codebar is a non-profit initiative that facilitates the growth of a diverse tech community by running regular programming workshops. Workshops are open to women, LGBTQ and people who …
The Data & Search team are following the lead of the Website Alpha team by publishing a short update on activity on a regular basis. The team thought about doing this a few months ago, but decided against it at the time …