What we talk about when we talk about user needs
User needs are mentioned a lot in PDS. In this post, I explain my understanding of user needs, what starting with user needs means, and how PDS does this.
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Getting to know you (and each other)
The Digital Development team in PDS has rapidly expanded, and there are a lot of new faces. Feedback from our last away day showed that staff wanted to get to know colleagues. With this purpose in mind we decided to get everyone together to do some user research.
UK Parliament website public beta
Today we made beta.parliament.uk publicly available for the first time. This is our first public step towards a new website for Parliament and the beginning of a long series of frequent releases.
The goings-on in the Data Search world...27/02/2017
The Data and Search team have made good progress over the past two weeks. In this twelfth set of fortnight notes I will try and encapsulate all those happenings!
The goings-on in the Data Search world...13/02/2017
The Data and Search team have made good progress over the past two weeks. In this eleventh set of fortnight notes I will try and encapsulate all those happenings!
Digital Service Quarterly Update: a recap
Today we hosted the Digital Service Quarterly Update. This was the first of our events for colleagues across Parliament to find out more about the work of PDS.
The goings-on in the Data Search world...30/01/2017
The Data & Search team is back with their tenth set of fortnight notes. The idea is to keep an ongoing, public record of what we're doing. We'll iterate the notes with a view to making them better over time …
Our blogging resolutions for 2017
Now that 2016 is done and dusted (and what a year it was), we’ve done some digging on the blog stats for last year. We wanted to see how the blog’s doing and what our audience like.
The goings-on in the Data Search world...16/01/2017
First things first, a very Happy New Year to all of you from us! We have been away for a while this time, but we promise to be back every fortnight. Now on to our ninth set of notes to …
Fortnight notes: Data and Search team 05/12/16
This is the Data & Search team's eighth set of fortnight notes. The idea is to keep an ongoing, public record of what we're doing. We'll iterate the notes with a view to making them better over time.