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 …
Being able to design a website that users love is not too far away from being able to read their minds. Understanding our users top tasks is a tool we are using to try and understand what users need and …
We are delighted to announce that the Scottish Parliament 'top tasks survey' is now live! We are asking participants to answer a series of short questions on why they are visiting the Scottish Parliament website. This feedback will allow us …
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