Can you write a blog about the Scottish Parliament’s information centre, commonly known as SPICe, and not reference 90s Brit pop? We make no promises. SPICe stands for Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Researchers in SPICe provide independent information and briefings …
Our new release on our beta website means you can now search through all of this session's Votes and Motions. We thought we’d tell you about some of the process behind the release. Votes and motions is exactly what is …
2020 has changed how we work and interact with people in almost every way. My role at parliament is a Visitor Services Officer. Visitor Services revolves around public interaction. We answer questions over the phone and face to face every …
Last week the Scottish Government introduced a Bill that would incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scottish law. The UNCRC is an international human rights treaty that covers all aspects of children’s lives. …
This summer, the Web Project has gone over to the dark side. Or dark mode, at least. Users on our beta site can now choose to use a dark mode design option. Dark mode allows you to choose if you …
Earlier this year, we began work on moving our committee information to Beta. A few months ago we reached a milestone for the web project when all 19 committees had their first presence on beta, displaying: membership contact details a …
The arrival of Covid-19 almost overnight means moving quickly to a new way of doing things in unfamiliar circumstances. So, how do we go about conducting user research in the middle of a global pandemic?
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. …
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