News and Updates

Sponsored by the User Experience Community of Practice (UX CoP) and DigitalGov, this event is an opportunity to share experiences and lessons learned in UX and network with other UX practitioners from across the government.

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Need help solving a problem? Join Challenge.gov to learn how federal agencies can use prize competitions to reach innovators in novel ways.

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Dr. Jarah Meador

Jessie Buerlein

New Community

Introducing the New Robotic Process Automation Community of Practice

The new community will explore opportunities, share ideas, and collaborate on how RPA can be effectively implemented in federal agencies.

Ed Burrows

May 08, 2019

How Presidential Innovation Fellows and 18F Support One Another in Agencies

Two teams working together to help agencies become more effective at meeting the needs of citizens.

Justin Koufopoulos

Angela Colter

Adam Drake

May 07, 2019

Journey Maps as Communication Tools

The team at Office of Natural Resources Revenue wrote about how they use journey mapping to help teams look at their agency’s processes in a more comprehensive way. — via Office of Natural Resources Revenue

May 07, 2019

Join federal, state and local governments and the broader community in an exploration of crowdsourcing approaches to address the opioid crisis.

Hosted by Digital.gov and the Challenge.gov

Come take a walk through the Search.gov indexing process from start to finish.

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Dawn Pointer McCleskey

We’ll demo the Advanced Analysis tool and show how you can use it to better understand your data and create drag-and-drop reports!

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Hosted by Digital.gov and the DAP

Tim Lowden

Learn how the Library is utilizing user-centered design to invite the public to explore, transcribe, and tag historical materials through a new open source platform.

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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Library of Congress Labs & Digitalgov University

Lauren Algee

Find out how the U.S. Data Federation’s work can help you. The team will give an introduction to the problems the U.S. Data Federation seeks to address, describe its approach, and share its vision for the future of the initiative.

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Hosted by Digital.gov and the U.S. Data Federation

Amy Mok

Julia Lindpaintner

Phil Ashlock

Join us for an overview of the DHA Usability Lab, and the resources they provide to improve customer experience.

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Dr. Julie Kinn

This seminar adapts principles of plain language to the context of speaking, covering not only wording but also structure and integration with visual aids.

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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Plain language

Christopher ‘Chip’ Crane

Katherine Spivey

Presidential Innovation Fellows Join FDA to Advance Digital Health

A new PIF team has begun their work applying data science approaches to device, drug, and software development, and associated regulatory decisions.

Robert Goldel

Rana Saad

Apr 09, 2019

We have a lot of forms in government, and many of them would benefit from better design. In this talk, Caroline Jarrett will explore a curriculum she’s working on about how to design forms.

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Hosted by Digital.gov and the TTS Research Guild

Caroline Jarrett

This is the first installment of GSA’s Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, where we look at how to use crowdsourcing to reach beyond your walls and source talent and enthusiasm.

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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Challenge.gov

John McLaughlin

Sophia B. Liu

Introducing USWDS 2.0

Today’s update introduces a powerful toolkit of new features to help make creating useful, consistent digital services faster, simpler, and more fun.

Dan Williams

Maya Benari

Apr 08, 2019

Web Analytics: Why the Users Metric Just Got More Complicated

A look at how the new Safari policy will alter your web analytics benchmarks.

Tim Lowden

Apr 04, 2019

Reginald Gant, a human resources specialist for the Office of Learning, Strategy, and Workforce Development at the Social Security Administration, will be discussing what branding is, why it is important, and the 6-step branding process.

Hosted by Digital.gov and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

This afternoon event is an opportunity for API practitioners from across federal agencies to come together, share news, and discuss topics of interest.

Hosted by Digital.gov and the APIs Community of Practice