A technology strategy for Parliament
Rupert Hay-Campbell blogs about Parliament's technology strategy and how it supports our digital strategy.
Continuous iteration
User needs on the intranet
Dia Nag talks about our discovery work on ‘exploring the user needs for the development of the intranet’. We wanted to validate existing assumptions and gather requirements for the intranet through qualitative and quantitative research.
Beyond ‘start with user needs’
“Start with user needs” is a phrase we hear a lot. Steve Bromley has blogged previously about what it means and everyone agrees that it sounds like the sort of thing we should be doing. In this post he shares his thoughts about what happens after ‘starting with user needs’.
Making history: official portraits and open source images
Editor-in-Chief Carrie Barclay talks about her recent project taking the first ever official portraits of MPs and what this means for the future of Parliamentary images.
Co-designing search on parliament.uk
Laurence Grinyer talks about the common misconception that design is only about aesthetics.
How we use our intranet homepages
We recently completed an intranet discovery project. A team of people from PDS worked together to understand the user needs of the Parliamentary intranet.
Testing the new Member pages
As part of the work we’re doing on the new website, we’re testing the beta pages with our users. During this testing, we’ve seen some unexpected behaviour from users.
Storytime: Instagramming the Queen for the first time
Here at PDS we like to be the first to try new things. We did our first ever Instagram story at the State Opening of Parliament this year. Here's how it went.
A quick question about social media audiences
We're lucky at PDS to have an engaged blog audience that regularly pops by to find out what we're working on. But we know that in recent years conversations have drifted away from blog comments and onto social platforms.
Improving the search function on parliament.uk
The Data and Search team are working to improve the search function on parliament.uk. It’s the start of more work we’ll be doing on search in the future.