Are you ready for user research?
Steve Bromley has learned a lot by making mistakes. In this post, he explores some of the challenges teams face that prevent useful research from happening and what techniques he's used to overcome them.
Collaboration culture
Working with the Commons Library to develop a new tool
George Lamb recently worked with the House of Commons Library to help them with a new product they hope to release later in the year.
Bath Ruby: immersing ourselves in the world of Ruby
Bryony Watson recently attended a two day conference called Bath Ruby. She's blogged about the community that surrounds the language and the talks by some of the big names who code using it.
Members' activity alpha: the design part
This is part two of the people team’s recent alpha on members' activity. I'm a designer and I want to share how to turn research findings into real, tangible ideas.
Members' activity alpha: the research part
This is part one of a series on the people team’s recent alpha on members' activity. User researcher, Marttiina Gilchrist, shares the process and practices that were used to get the team immersed in research and understanding the users.
Helping Parliament be more transparent and secure
Victoria Payne is the Head of Information Rights and Information Security in the House of Commons. She explains what her role is and what it means for Parliament.
Welcome to the Clerk side
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.
Being a data analyst in PDS
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.
Why UK Parliament needed a new identity
UK Parliament has a new visual identity and we wanted to share our process behind collaborating and developing the new look for UK Parliament.
To codebar or not to codebar
Caroline Auty recently went along to a codebar event at the PDS offices. She's blogged about the event and how coding has helped her keep up with her eight year old daughter.