Impostor syndrome and mental health
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
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Loraine Midda, Posted on:
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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
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Laurence Grinyer and Rebecca Hales, Posted on:
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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, a House reporter for Hansard, has blogged about the common questions she gets about her job.
Making history: official portraits and open images
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Carrie Kleiner, Posted on:
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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
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Steve Bromley, Posted on:
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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
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Hannah Ufland, Posted on:
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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
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Ben Woodhams, Posted on:
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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
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Laurence Grinyer, Posted on:
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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 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.