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 part of the web and online roadmap project, the Scottish Parliament has introduced new cloud-based services and applications to support our new Beta website. These services give us the foundations to create an online presence that’s well-designed, up-to-date and …
The first version of the new Scottish Parliament website is live from 28 February 2019
Because our users told us to, that’s why. As we’ve mentioned in previous blog posts we’ve chosen a user-centred approach to designing our new website. To do this, we interviewed people from across our different user groups to ensure we’re …
As part of the ongoing work for the Beta website, we’ve developed a set of design principles. But, what are they for and why do we need them? What are they? Design principles are a set of rules which will …
After a busy few months of user research, stakeholder engagement and developing roadmap themes, we have achieved a major milestone with the approval of our Web & Online Roadmap. The Roadmap is a strategic report that sets out how the …
The Web & Online Roadmap is focussed on creating a more inclusive and user centric website. User needs are the key driver in how we move forward and this is demonstrated by the extensive user research that has underpinned the …
The Web & Online Roadmap sets out how we plan to redevelop the current Scottish Parliament online channels. It shows strategic tasks across twelve themes which will support the journey to replace the current website with a modern and sustainable …
The results The results are in! We’ve now got the results of the Scottish Parliament’s “top task” survey from February. This was about understanding how people use, and want to use, our website. The survey was open to all visitors …
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