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Qualifications & References

Experience & Qualifications

Parliament has demonstrated expertise in each capability that K1C has identified as desirable in its School Views design & development partner.

Across our portfolio of civic, education, and public-interest technology projects, we've designed products that bring together thoughtful strategy, inclusive design, and data-centered storytelling for audiences and stakeholders throughout the Social Sector.

Design, Build, & Maintenance of Digital Products
  • Accessibility-centered design
  • Mobile-first UX/UI design
  • CMS implementation and content workflows that can accommodate multilingual content
  • Front-end web application development
Clients & Content
  • Civic, nonprofit, & public-sector clients
  • Education sector clients, incl. CPS
  • Civic technology & public-interest products
  • Parent-facing tools, dashboards, & public information products
Community-Centered & Collaborative Design Processes
  • Iterative, collaborative data/digital design
  • Community-centered and participatory design processes
A note on AI in Parliament's Work

Parliament's development team uses Cursor, an AI-assisted software development environment, to support software engineering across our projects. Cursor enables developers to interact with multiple leading large language models (LLMs) while providing full project context by referencing the existing codebase. This helps accelerate tasks such as code generation, refactoring, documentation, debugging, and test creation while maintaining consistency with the project's architecture and coding standards.

All AI-generated code is treated as a draft and is subject to the same engineering standards as any manually written code. Developers review all proposed changes before integrating them. No AI-generated code is committed directly to production.

To ensure quality and accountability, all production code undergoes peer review by at least two developers and follows our standard testing and deployment processes before release. AI serves as a productivity tool that assists our engineers, while responsibility for design decisions, code quality, security, and final approval remains with our development team.

Relevant Clients & Case Studies

Below is a selection of recent, relevant clients that demonstrate expertise in the work that we're proposing to K1C:

Education Sector

Through artlookmap.com, Parliament has worked with education system stakeholders from 10+ regions around the country. Audiences include school district leadership, school principals, state-level Education Departments, Arts Ed advocacy nonprofits and alliances, artist organizations, and families.

Selected regional focus areas include Chicago, Miami, Houston, Alabama (state), Michigan (state), Illinois (state).

Non-profits & Funders

  • The Miami Foundation
  • Center for Childhood Resilience at Lurie Children's Hospital
  • Arts Education Partnership
  • United Way of Metro Chicago
  • Hyundai Genesis Inspiration Foundation
Case Study

ArtScan Website Redesign

Client Overview

Arts Education Partnership (AEP) is a national network of more than 200 organizations dedicated to advancing arts education. ArtScan is AEP's online policy platform that enables educators, advocates, policymakers, and researchers to explore arts education policies across all 50 states.

Parliament's Role

AEP hired Parliament to reconceive of and design a modernized, expanded version of ArtScan. Parliament led a full UX/UI redesign, including user journey development, navigation strategy, wireframing and prototyping, design system creation, and accessibility and usability review.

Key Successes
  • Reimagined the user experience using human-centered design principles, making complex policy information significantly easier to explore and understand.
  • Created multiple methods for discovering information—including interactive maps, search, filtering, topic-based navigation, and guided exploration—allowing users to navigate according to their preferred workflow.
  • A cleaner, more intuitive experience with improved navigation, an enhanced report builder, interactive U.S. map, centralized research library, and bill tracker—significantly improving discoverability, usability, and engagement across user groups.
ArtScan platform interactive map interface ArtScan report builder interface
Case Study

United Way Impact Hub

Client Overview

United Way of Metro Chicago sought to rethink the way they learned from, understood, and communicated about the impact of the work they support across Metro Chicago.

Parliament's Role

Parliament launched the Impact Hub, a data storytelling platform that integrates internal reporting with external community data to provide comprehensive local and regional insights. The platform translates complex, multi-source data into actionable intelligence for strategic decision-making.

Key Successes
  • Designed an intuitive user experience with multiple navigation pathways that allow users to discover relevant insights based on geography, topic, or organizational priority.
  • Leveraged data storytelling principles to translate complex datasets into clear narratives that support cross-functional needs—including Fundraising, Development, Community Impact, and Marketing.
  • Unified internal and external data into a single, centralized platform, reducing the need to gather information from multiple systems.
United Way Impact Hub dashboard overview United Way Impact Hub data visualization
Case Study

artlook® Michigan Learning Hub

Client Overview

The Michigan Assessment Consortium (MAC) sought to build a custom Learning Management System as an additional module within the existing artlook® Michigan platform (a web interface and data system that Parliament designs, owns, and manages).

Parliament's Role

Parliament led the full lifecycle of the product, from early-stage prototyping and UX exploration through iterative design reviews, technical build, and final launch of a scalable, responsive LMS integrated directly into the artlook ecosystem. The design approach was grounded in UX/UI principles focused on simplicity, clarity, and ease of engagement.

Key Successes
  • A custom LMS that enables users to manage learning, resources, and key aspects of arts education engagement within a single unified system.
  • A streamlined learning experience with clear navigation and structured content pathways, reducing friction for end users.
  • A scalable and responsive system that supports ongoing content expansion and future feature enhancements.
artlook Michigan Learning Hub interface artlook Michigan Learning Hub module view
Staffing & Roles
References

If the K1C team would like further perspective on our approach to partnerships and/or the quality of our work, please feel free to reach out to:

Kimberlee Guenther
Chief Impact Officer, United Way of Metro Chicago
kimberlee.guenther@liveunitedchicago.org
Colleen Cicchetti
Executive Director, Center for Childhood Resilience at Lurie Children's Hospital
ccicchet@luriechildrens.org
Heather Vaughn-Southard
Director, Michigan Assessment Consortium's MI Creative Potential
heathervs@michiganassessmentconsortium.org