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Behind the scenes of the hybrid bills online service

Screenshot of the online hybrid bills 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

Elisabeth, a content designer, working with a colleague in PDS

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

Boxes of written objections received in response to HS2 Bill

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

Image of a #ukparlibeta sign

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.

Switching off our old search service

A screenshot of the new search service

On the 6 September last year, we turned on a new search service for parliament.uk. On the 19 January we'll switch off the ‘old service’ for all our users and we'll be fully decommissioning the service by the end of January.

Creating a new email subscription service for UK Parliament

A drawing of the subscription process in full

We’ve been looking at the sign up process and subscription service people use to get email updates from UK Parliament. We’ve just finished our alpha phase and want to share some of what we learned.