Changes to search on Parliament's websites
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.
Continuous iteration
Going live with the statutory instruments service: the challenges and lessons learned
Sarah Purssell has written about the new statutory instruments service, the challenges of building it, and what the team learned from it.
Who is Parliament's website for?
Steve Bromley has written about who our website is for and why it's important to be realistic about who our audiences are.
Improving Parliament's online visitor experience
We’ve just finished the alpha phase of improving Parliament's online visitor information, where we did rapid prototyping and testing. Here's what we learned.
Tell us what you think about the blog
We've been running this blog for a while now and we think it's time we found out what our readers think of it. So we're doing some research.
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.
How we're engaging users with the beta website
The new website team have been busy creating a modern new website for UK Parliament but a big question remained unanswered. Are we reaching out and engaging with Parliament’s audience?
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.
Sharing what we do
Colin Pattinson is a product manager who's been writing regular updates about the work of his team. He talks about why he does this, what he's learned, and how he's improved them.
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.