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.
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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.
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.
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.