www.parliament.scotApp-etite for Design
What next
User Centred Design
Committee information now available on Beta
If you’ve looked at the Beta website in the past few weeks, you’ll see it looks different too. We now have 12 committees on the new site, with 7 more to come in the next few weeks. Each committee has: …
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.
The Web Project and Committees
Working together to transform committee content – subject matter experts' views
How we’re improving our new beta website
This blog was written by Anne Walker
How we make our content understandable
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 means putting the most important information and keywords …
Making our information and web services open for everyone
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 …
Why using plain English is about opening up not “dumbing down”
“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 research participant - web project) The first version …
Why did we blend Top Tasks 2 and 3?
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 …