July | 2017 | Parliamentary Digital Service

Impostor syndrome and mental health

Sharan Dhaliwal 31 July 2017 Care Open

Gavin Elliott from the Department for Work and Pensions recently came to PDS to talk about imposter syndrome and mental health issues. He talked about the importance of getting help and why it's good to talk.

From man on the moon to an MBE

Loraine Midda 28 July 2017 Experts in what we do Technology Women in digital

Loraine talks about her career in Parliament, what it feels like to find out you're being given an MBE, and why her careers advisor was right all along.

What Parliament can learn from #oneteamgov

Laurence Grinyer and Rebecca Hales 26 July 2017 Content design Curiosity Design Experts in what we do

Some of PDS went to the first ever One Team Government event. It was a chance to talk about how to make government better by working together and many of the topics applied to Parliament. Laurence and Rebecca talk about what they learned at the event.

Being a Hansard reporter: 10 things you thought you knew

Charlie Browne 24 July 2017 Collaboration culture Hansard

Charlie Browne, a House reporter for Hansard, has blogged about the common questions she gets about her job.

Making history: official portraits and open images

Carrie Kleiner 21 July 2017 Content design Continuous iteration Open Simplicity

An update from UK Parliament's Editor-in-Chief, Carrie Kleiner, introducing the new House of Lords portraits following on from the success of the MP portraits project back in summer 2017.

How proto-persona workshops can help kickstart research

Steve Bromley 19 July 2017 Collaboration culture Start with user needs User research

PDS does a lot of stuff. As our user research team is relatively small, we need to prioritise what work we focus our attention on. We also need to find other ways of supporting the rest of the work done by PDS.

Three cyber security mistakes I never knew I was making

Hannah Ufland 17 July 2017 Experts in what we do Technology Unity without uniformity

Hannah Ufland talks about the recent cyber security event and how it never crossed her mind that it would be her that would be learning something.

Mapping the territory

Ben Woodhams 14 July 2017 Collaboration culture Data and search Experts in what we do parliament.uk Unity without uniformity

Ben Woodhams has been seconded to PDS to help design the data models that will underpin Parliament’s new website. He explains what this all means and why there should only be one John Prescott in data terms.

Co-designing search on parliament.uk

Laurence Grinyer 12 July 2017 Collaboration culture Continuous iteration Design parliament.uk Start with user needs

Laurence Grinyer talks about the common misconception that design is only about aesthetics.

I AM PARLIAMENT and what it means for us

Rosie Hatton 10 July 2017 Cultural values Digital strategy

Rosie Hatton talks about the work we're doing to create a personal way for staff to relate to the digital strategy. We’ve created something called I AM PARLIAMENT to help staff take ownership of the strategy.

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