I’m Michael and I work as a user researcher. Before coming to PDS I studied for a Masters Degree in Human-Computer Interaction Design. My dissertation was about accent bias in speech recognition technology. In September 2024, I gave a talk …
As part of Parliament’s digital transformation journey, we have been testing new approaches to digital delivery. We have renewed our focus on managing and improving our products based on user feedback. We have also been investing in Parliament’s approach to …
Content Designer Hugh Griffith explains how creating great user experiences online can improve our rankings in search results, and why this matters.
How should we define success? The performance analyst team in PDS has been working on a way to help teams measure performance of Parliament's websites.
We wanted to find out what is happening in the world of search, so a PDS product manager and performance analyst went to Brighton to see how we could use the latest tools to perform better in online searches.
Understanding how and what users search on Parliament’s website helps us continually improve the search function. We wanted to understand if there was a difference between parliamentary language and what users are searching. Data analyst, Sara Reis, shares the findings.
In this update, we'll be talking about the work that we've done to improve the search results on parliament.uk and how we created a unified search.
Sara and Matthieu of the data and search team went to TICTeC in Lisbon. This conference on the impact of civic technology gathered together researchers, funders, and practitioners and was rich in content. Here's a summary from Matthieu.
Sara Reis has been a data analyst in the data and search team for eight months. She's blogged about her job, what she's learned and what she enjoys about it.
We recently launched a web interface to help applications access and query our semantic data in a triple store. Jianhan Zhu talks about what this means for our data.