Continuous iteration

Members' activity alpha: the design part

Victor Hwang, 20 April 2018 — Collaboration culture, Continuous iteration, Curiosity, Design

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

Marttiina Gilchrist, 18 April 2018 — Collaboration culture, Continuous iteration, Start with user needs, User research

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.

Being a data analyst in PDS

Sara Reis, 28 March 2018 — Analytics, Collaboration culture, Continuous iteration, Data, parliament.uk

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.

Petitioning against HS2 – how the service is doing

Lopa Vadgama, 21 March 2018 — Analytics, Continuous iteration, Experts in what we do, parliament.uk

We set ourselves five goals before the release of an online petitioning service. Now that the petitioning deadline has passed, Lopa Vadgama looks at how the service is doing.

Beyond usability testing – picking the right research method

Steve Bromley, 19 March 2018 — Continuous iteration, Curiosity, Start with user needs, Unity without uniformity, User research

When people think about user research, their image is often of our research lab. Steve Bromley explores the attraction to usability testing in a lab, but also explaind how we decide on the research method used.

Creating accessible and responsive search

Usman Afzal, 16 February 2018 — Continuous iteration, Focus on core work, parliament.uk

We recently blogged about turning off the old search. We then worked on creating the global search component and this blog post is about what we did from a technical perspective and why.

What business partners in Parliament do

Gavin Berman, 14 February 2018 — Collaboration culture, Continuous iteration, Focus on core work, Unity without uniformity

Gavin Berman, one of our business partners, explains what business partners do and how it works in Parliament.

The role of a content designer in a product team

Rebecca Hales, 12 February 2018 — Collaboration culture, Content design, Continuous iteration, Open, parliament.uk

Our website product teams have people doing a variety of different roles. This gives us a good mix of people with the right skills to build what users need. In this post, we take a look at the part content designers play.

Building a new online service: petitioning a hybrid bill

Sarah Purssell, 9 February 2018 — Collaboration culture, Continuous iteration, parliament.uk, Product Management, Start with user needs

We recently launched an online process for petitioning against a hybrid bill after receiving hundreds of paper petitions against a recent bill. Sarah Purssell has blogged about why this was a good opportunity to develop this as a digital service.

What discovery, alpha, beta, and live mean at Parliament

Laurence Grinyer, 31 January 2018 — Collaboration culture, Continuous iteration, Open, parliament.uk, Start with user needs

We're building a new website and rather than redesigning the entire website at once, we’re creating little bits of it in iterative steps. You'll probably hear us calling this 'agile' and 'iterative' design. Laurence Grinyer explains what agile working looks like in Parliament.