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.
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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.
Celebrating Sign Language Week with BSL parliamentary signs
We're celebrating Sign Language Week with some BSL parliamentary signs, thanks to Elisabeth Ward who's learning BSL for her 10% time.
UK Parliament's first ever Facebook strategy
Amy Mollett has written the first ever content strategy for the UK Parliament Facebook page. This blog post summarises the main strategy, and what our page will look like in the coming months.
Sharing our stories to celebrate International Women's Day
Today (8 March) is International Women's Day. It celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. In honour of this, we spoke to women across PDS about their careers, the barriers they've faced, and the women they look up to.
Learning BSL for my 10% time
Elisabeth Ward has been learning BSL for her 10% time. We've recorded a video of her telling us more about it, using BSL of course.
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.
Behind the scenes of the hybrid bills online service
We recently blogged about a new online service to petition against a hybrid bill. In this post, we’re talking about the behind the scenes systems that allows the petitions to be processed and sent to government departments.
The role of a content designer in a product team
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.
What discovery, alpha, beta, and live mean at Parliament
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.