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.
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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?
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.
A new typeface for Parliament
Jack Craig has blogged about the choices we made when choosing our new typeface for the beta website.
Back in the GDPR: user researchers won't break the law
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new EU regulation which strengthens people’s rights to understand and control how information about them is used. The user research team has been busy preparing for it.
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.
Petitioning against HS2 – how the service is doing
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.
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.
Creating accessible and responsive search
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.