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    "title" : "Trends on Tuesday: Is Crowdsourcing the Future of Mobile Design and Development? |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Is Crowdsourcing the Future of Mobile Design and Development?","summary" : "NASA recently announced the winners of a smartwatch app interface competition. A Canadian duo won the design competition, and NASA’s plan is to build the app with 2016 funding to have it available for astronauts to use when they are aboard the International Space Station. This is the first government smartwatch app development we’ve talked about","date" : "2015-10-13T14:18:42-04:00","date_modified" : "2024-04-02T09:45:13-04:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/cm-topics-button-component/content/news/2015/10/2015-10-13-trends-on-tuesday-is-crowdsourcing-the-future-of-mobile-design-and-development-2.md","slug" : "trends-on-tuesday-is-crowdsourcing-the-future-of-mobile-design-and-development-2","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/2015/10/13/trends-on-tuesday-is-crowdsourcing-the-future-of-mobile-design-and-development-2/","content" :"\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/10/600-x-400-Smart-watch.-Smartwatch-concept-scyther5-iStock-Thinkstock-482564012.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Smart watch concept\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eNASA recently announced the winners of a \u003ca href=\"http://fedscoop.com/nasa-names-winner-in-smartwatch-app-design-contest\"\u003esmartwatch app interface competition\u003c/a\u003e. A Canadian duo won the design competition, and NASA’s plan is to build the app with 2016 funding to have it \u003ca href=\"https://www.freelancer.com/contest/NASA-Challenge-Astronaut-Smartwatch-App-Interface-Design-261634.html\"\u003eavailable for astronauts to use\u003c/a\u003e when they are aboard the International Space Station.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first government smartwatch app development we’ve talked about on DigitalGov and an example of a great \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/2015/10/07/is-your-agency-winning-its-mobile-moments/\"\u003emobile moment\u003c/a\u003e use case. Not only is the smart app interesting (\u003ca href=\"https://www.freelancer.com/contest/NASA-Challenge-Astronaut-Smartwatch-App-Interface-Design-261634-byentry-6597765.html\"\u003esee the UI images\u003c/a\u003e!) but also \u003cem\u003ehow\u003c/em\u003e NASA is approaching its development is worth examining. While agencies are \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/2014/12/22/how-six-agencies-are-crowdsourcing-with-mobile-apps/\"\u003ecrowdsourcing via native apps\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/2015/08/13/nist-hosts-reference-data-challenge-to-create-mobile-apps/\"\u003ecrowdsourcing their actual mobile development\u003c/a\u003e, none have publicly crowdsourced just the app design.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile development of native apps requires \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/2015/09/30/the-data-briefing-connecting-the-data-dots-nasas-nyspacetag-app/\"\u003eeasily consumable data\u003c/a\u003e, crowdsourcing design requires a little less lift for the agency—essentially, they just need a use case and some requirements for the watch. As we move into the \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/topics/emerging-tech/\"\u003eA-B-C’s of the Internet of Things\u003c/a\u003e, new approaches to anywhere, anytime development like this are going to be imperative.\u003cem\u003eLooking for ideas on how to craft a successful crowdsourcing project? The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Federal Community of Practice on Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/2015/09/30/how-ostp-crowdsourced-a-crowdsourcing-toolkit/\"\u003erecently released a Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing Toolkit\u003c/a\u003e to help agencies open up innovation in government. The toolkit contains information, resources, and best practices federal agencies can use to harness the power of public participation.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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