beta.parliament.scotIntroducing a Dark Mode for our beta site
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 …
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Remote user research at the Scottish Parliament
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?
Feedback and the Beta site
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 …
Site 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. …
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.
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: …