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.
Curiosity
Getting to know you (and each other)
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Fred McGhie, Posted on:
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Community, Curiosity, Start with user needs, User research
The Digital Development team in PDS has rapidly expanded, and there are a lot of new faces. Feedback from our last away day showed that staff wanted to get to know colleagues. With this purpose in mind we decided to get everyone together to do some user research.
Getting a mobile testing lab off the ground
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Henry Lau, Posted on:
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Continuous iteration, Curiosity, Start with user needs, User research
At PDS we like to push ourselves and aim big. After our visit to GDS at the end of November we felt inspired to get our user testing lab set up. Our Christmas wish was to do user testing on mobile devices by January.
What we learned from the GDS User Research team
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Steve Bromley, Posted on:
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Collaboration culture, Community, Curiosity, Start with user needs, User research
Our user research team spent a day with GDS observing how they run their user research sessions. It was an interesting opportunity to see the processes and methods used by an established research team and we learned a lot that could help the development of our own team.
codebar event
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Giuseppe De Santis, Posted on:
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Collaboration culture, Confidence, Curiosity, Open, Technology
Last week the Parliamentary Digital Service had the pleasure of hosting codebar.
Work experience with website alpha - Samuel Kasadha
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Ganesh Senthi, Posted on:
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Curiosity, Experts in what we do, Open, parliament.uk
Samuel Kasadha, a work experience student, spent a week shadowing various people at PDS. He wrote about how we helped him understand the work that gets done in parliament, what goes on behind the scenes and the difference between parliament and government.
Work experience with website alpha
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Julie Byrne, Posted on:
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Curiosity, Data and search, Experts in what we do, Open, parliament.uk
Matthew Bwye Lera, an 18 year old student spent 3 weeks on work experience at PDS. He talks about what he learnt during his time in Parliament.
My first week on work experience
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Julie Byrne, Posted on:
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Categories:
Curiosity, Data and search, Experts in what we do, Open
Well, this is the first time I’ve written a blog post so I hope you like it! I’m Matthew Bwye Lera, a Spanish guy who has come to do some work experience here.
Work Experience at the Parliamentary Digital Services by Alexander Fedotov
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Ganesh Senthi, Posted on:
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Categories:
Curiosity, Experts in what we do, Open, parliament.uk
To everyone reading this I am Alexander Fedotov and I am 15 years old, from Fleet, Hampshire. This week I’ve been working with the Website Alpha team and I have greatly enjoyed it!
Learning from ONS Digital
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Dan Barrett, Posted on:
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Categories:
Collaboration culture, Curiosity, Data and search, Experts in what we do, parliament.uk
Towards the end of May we went to see Matt Jukes at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in Newport to learn from his experience as Product Lead building the new ONS website.