Content design

iPhone filming: what not to do

Louise Duffy, 3 October 2018 — Content design, Continuous iteration, Filming

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.

Things can only get beta

Joanna Dodd and John Newton, 19 September 2018 — Collaboration culture, Content design, Continuous iteration, Focus on core work, parliament.uk

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.

Making the hours count, not counting the hours

John Newton, 13 June 2018 — Care, Content design

John Newton from the content team is a big fan of flexible working and he's written about how he juggles work with looking after his daughter.

Welcome to the Clerk side

John Newton, 4 April 2018 — Collaboration culture, Content design, Focus on core work, parliament.uk, Start with user needs

We recently blogged about creating a new guide to procedure for MPs. John Newton has written about what it was like being part of the product team from a content perspective.

The role of a content designer in a product team

Rebecca Hales, 12 February 2018 — Collaboration culture, Content design, Continuous iteration, Open, parliament.uk

Our website product teams have people doing a variety of different roles. This gives us a good mix of people with the right skills to build what users need. In this post, we take a look at the part content designers play.

Mentoring a young refugee for my 10% time

Caroline Braibant, 5 February 2018 — Care, Content design, Cultural values

Caroline Braibant works in the content team and is using her 10% time to mentor a young refugee. She writes about how this helps with her work and what she's learned from using her 10% time.

Our editorial direction for 2018

Carrie Kleiner, 8 January 2018 — Content design, Continuous iteration, Experts in what we do, parliament.uk, Start with user needs

Our Editor-in-Chief shares the editorial direction work of the content team for the year to come. As with all our strategic content work, these plans will be iterated and developed as the new website progresses.