beta.parliament.scotSite Navigation on Beta
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: …
Who are our users?
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. …
Committee information now available on Beta
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 …
Bills, Bills, Bills
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 …
User 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. …