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 …
Here at the Parliament, we’re at the heart of politics and decision making in Scotland. Two of our key aims are to encourage more people to get involved in Parliament’s activities, and to make sure that anyone who wants to …
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 …
In our last blog, we asked for feedback on the first draft of the contact us page. First of all, thank you to everyone who took the time to get back to us. I believe the contact us service will …
We're currently developing the first version of our new website and we're keen to understand how the new website can help you contact us. On the current website, when people want to find out how to contact us it’s difficult …
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 …
We’re redesigning our website to follow the Top Tasks model created by Gerry McGovern. Thanks to the 1,400 people who responded to our survey, we will be designing our first version of the new website (known as a Beta) around …
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 start of something new and exciting Work is under way to develop a new website for the Scottish Parliament. Replacing our large, information rich site will be complex and we want to develop a plan that will make sure …
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