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 …
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 …
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 …
The Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) section is one of the key areas people want to use when they come to the Parliament website. It's our 6th top task and is important for all of our user groups. Having …
Last week the Web and Online Project Team were proud to release the new Festival of Politics website. This is the first of our microsites to follow a user centred design process and to be built in our new Sitecore …
In February this year we released the first version of the new Scottish Parliament website. You may have heard this new website is called a ‘beta’. This means it’s ready for the public and staff to use and give feedback …
As the Scottish Parliament's web presence has grown over time, we have a selection of websites that all have a different look and feel. This can be confusing for people because we’re making them do the same thing in different ways.
This blog post was written by Dawn Kofie. Creating effective products and services isn't just about knowing how to design websites and apps that make it easy for people to find, do and understand, what they need. An important part …
This blog was written by Anne Walker Before we launch anything new, we bring best practice to our designs and test them with a range of different people. But we know that once we make something live, there will be …
This blog post was written by Dawn Kofie. We’ve written about why we’ve used plain English on our new website. Here’s an overview of how we’ve made our content understandable and accessible. The main ways are by: Frontloading information This …
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