Hello, this is Alan, a content designer working on beta.parliament.uk. At the end of each sprint I will provide an update of the work the members team have done and what we have learned in the process.
Make written questions and answers easy to find, easy to comprehend and a trusted source for re-use.
We welcomed new arrivals to the members team:
Change is the only constant.
Then we set to work:
We added to the written questions and answers on our development platform.
Bryony worked through the data relating to the different states the questions and answers exist in (from question posed to answer given – and everything in-between).
Withdrawn questions are being investigated.
Naz returned from holiday and began working on potential measures for written questions and answers.
Victor designed a journey to allow users to find written questions by the departments and bodies providing the answers.
This led to an interesting conversation about government departments and parliamentary bodies that helped us create our final list of answering bodies.
Joshua built a prototype for testing the journey.
Marttiina ran remote user testing and the team watched the recordings: always a fascinating and educating experience.
Following testing the team participated in a collaborative analysis session.
The team agreed it would be wise to run lab research, so we can further assess what we have made so far.
We have a list of labs to consider for testing as ours are currently unavailable due to office refurbishments.
Bryony did even more data investigation. She’s the team’s data detective and we all appreciate the discoveries she makes.
We listed questions we have for Parliament’s Table Office ahead of some of the team meeting with them next sprint.
Marttiina continued to share her research expertise with the team by holding research review sessions. This sprint we learned more about observation strategies.
Began reworking the beta homepage so it meets our needs
Reviewed our contact journey documents and asked, ‘what do we actually know?’
Lunched with Caroline, our previous delivery manager
Helped out at Hansard
The team have joked about adding a tarot element to retros… but now we have The Tarot Cards of Tech we may have a new element to our future retros
GDPR scrambling has spawned a swell of data protection ‘charlatans’
Grammar consternation and the US constitution and the return of Revisionist History
Caliphate, Rukmini Callimachi’s new podcast series, is as great as her other journalism
What the font – for when you absolutely need to know the name of a font spotted in the wild
Fred continues his strong start to ‘sprintnotes’ with more updates from the outputs team.
I need to close my first edition of Sprintnotes with a thank you to Jake for his fast and thorough assistance with the technical aspects of this edition. Without his help it wouldn’t have happened - so thank you, Jake!