Getting feedback and making changes based on feedback is an important part of Agile working and continuous improvement. As well as user testing and interviews, all the pages on the Beta site have an option to leave on-page feedback, saying …
Determining our new navigation structure At the end of last year, we asked you to help us shape the content structure for the Beta website to ensure information across the site is as easy to find as it can be: …
An important part of building a user-centred website is understanding who uses the site and what their needs are. To do that, we need to know who exactly our users are. We start this by defining our key user groups. …
Committees at the Scottish Parliament look rather different just now. While work and meetings continue, some committees are now meeting remotely. They’re using video conferencing to continue their work, and ensure the public can follow what’s happening. If you’ve looked …
From 14 April, current and previous Bills for this parliamentary session (from 2016) will only be published on our new beta website: beta.parliament.scot. This is a significant milestone for the web project. Bills from previous sessions of Parliament will continue …
Last month, we spoke to the Scottish Parliament’s senior management team about the user centred approach we follow for our new Beta website, and how user research feeds into this.
Like many other organisations (including the NHS and Gov.uk), the Scottish Parliament wants to take a new approach with its new website (https://beta.parliament.scot/). This new, user-centred approach means we will create information for the site in a new way. For …
We’ve been updating the MSP part of our Beta website with new content. The new design will help users to navigate across the different aspects of MSP information. We’ve added a new navigation that lets users easily move between different …
Understanding accessibility and why it is important? At the Scottish Parliament, all content on our Beta website must meet accessibility standards. Making an accessible website ensures it can be used by as many people as possible This includes people with: …
Like many of you, our Web and Online Project teams have had to come to grips with working from home for the foreseeable future. Thankfully, much of what we do can be done from home, and many of us have …
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