Simply de-stressed
Laurence Favager talks about his career move from journalist restricted by deadlines, to PDS content designer free to iterate.
Content design
Storytime: young voters and the general election
During the general election campaign, Parliament's strategy is to encourage young voters to engage in politics. We've done some work on social media and the website to support this ambition so here's what we've done so far.
Planning the editorial direction of parliament.uk
We're making our content work harder by making it easier to understand. To borrow a phrase from the experts on plain English – this isn't about dumbing down, it's about opening up.
What our users know about general elections
Here's what we've learned about our users, general elections and working with teams across Parliament.
How to make videos accessible
This week, I've blogged about filming on iPhones and the best techniques for interviewing people. This final instalment is about making videos accessible for everyone.
How to interview people for videos
Part two in our series on filming is about interview technique. The first part focused on the basics of filming on iPhones.
How to film with an iPhone
As part of Learning at Work Week, we’re doing a series of posts on filming. This first part is about the basics.
Preserving Parliament on social media
We recently wrote about the Parliamentary Archives and the work they're doing to be more accessible to the public. In this post, we're talking about how they're helping to preserve Parliament on social media.
Storytime: giving good blog
It's been three months since we've had a Blog Editor at PDS. Last month we did a review of how the first three months have gone so here's what we found.
Managing content, not just creating it
With so much work going on at PDS, it can be easy to take our live services for granted. The work to build our new website is challenging our whole way of thinking, especially our approach to content management. In the meantime though, we've been doing plenty of work on parliament.uk.