Is user research a team sport?
Is user research a team sport?
Steve Bromley talks about the mantra ‘user research is a team sport’ and its misconceptions. In this post, he explains what it means for user researchers in PDS.
Westminster – not as unique as we might think
Caroline Auty attended the recent ANZPIT forum in Australia, which is an annual gathering of parliamentary IT people, and she's blogged about the best bits.
Experimenting with a Twitter takeover
Kat Cimetta is the social media editor for UK Parliament's channels and she's written about joining forces with Parliament’s curators, collection managers, and archivists to get involved in the global hashtag campaign #AskACurator.
Rediscovering research
Marttiina Gilchrist talks about what to do with research when work or projects get paused and how not to lose momentum.
Solving problems with Parliament’s Digital Support Desk
Service desk analyst Abigail Prempeh-Brown has worked in various roles. Find out how the service desk fixes problems and how Abigail’s background as a librarian and mental health support worker helps her provide excellent customer service.
Building an Instagram strategy for UK Parliament
Amy Mollett, UK Parliament's Senior Social Media Strategist, explains how a change of approach to Instagram content is bringing out our creativity and increasing interest in our feed.
iPhone filming: what not to do
When the content team was created a couple of years ago, we blogged about who we are and what we do. We've since made a video about our work using the minimum viable film studio - a mobile phone. Louise Duffy describes the filming process and the lessons she's learnt.
Building a healthy and happy team
Team health has become Dan Cook's passion in the past few years. In this post, he talks about how happy and healthy teams deliver at the peak of their capacity and capabilities and how they can be incredible things to be a part of.
Why I signed up for Parliament's talent management programme
Jaie Samson was at a crossroads in his career so he decided to sign up for the Talent Management Programme in Parliament.
Things can only get beta
We recently published a Guide to Procedure for MPs on the beta website. The product owner and the content designer explain how they created the guide and how the team worked together.
Meet (some of) the content team
Parliament had never had a content team before so last year, we introduced the team and explained who we are and what we do. We thought we'd do another update and this time, we've done a video.