beta.parliament.scotUser Centred Design and User Research
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.
Content design for websites
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 …
MSP information added to Beta website
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 …
Accessible PDF content on the Scottish Parliament Beta website
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: …
Coronavirus (COVID-19) and adapting to home working
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 …
Usability testing at the Scottish Parliament
Every 3 weeks at the Scottish Parliament, we test our new website designs with the public (usability testing). We do this to gauge whether the new designs we’re producing for our Beta website are meeting the needs of our users. …
The Web Project and Committees
We’re Amy and Rachel. Together we’ve worked in the Parliament for a combined total of 16 years in 10 different offices. Most recently, we’ve been in the committees and from there we’ve been seconded to the Web Project. We’ve been …
Help us make our information findable
One of our content strategy principles is that our ‘content is findable’. This means that we prioritise helping people who want our information to find it as quickly and easily as possible. We’re building this into our content and design …
Dòigh-obrach Stèidhichte air Luchd-cleachdaidh mu Shusbaint Ghàidhlig
The English version of this blog 'Taking a user centred approach to Gaelic content' was published previously on the website. Anns a’ Ghearran am-bliadhna chuir sinn a-mach a’ chiad tionndadh de làrach-lìn ùr Pàrlamaid na h-Alba. Is dòcha gun cuala …
Content strategy: ensuring our information meets our values and strategic priorities
This week our leadership group at the Scottish Parliament approved our content strategy. This means it has been adopted as one of our corporate strategies. It was created in collaboration with teams across the Parliament and will be a tool …