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
This blog post was written by Dawn Kofie. “The parliament has a great reputation for being an organisation which promotes values of openness and transparency… it would be great if this ethos was translated and visible via the website.” (User …
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 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 …
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