News and Updates

The federal Plain Language community is holding their first all-day summit in Washington D.C., and you’re invited!

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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Plain Language Community of Practice

This online event will cover how to check if behaviors change when people are using keystrokes to click, which might give insight into how users with disabilities interact with your site

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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Digital Analytics Program

Tim Lowden

Experiments in Tweaking Agile for UX

Designers at the Federal Reserve Board share how they adjusted the agile process to work better for their team.

Meghan Lazier

Jessica Skretch

Jul 17, 2018

The Emerging Technology Leadership Series, hosted by the U.S. General Services Administration Emerging Citizen Technology Office, is a six-part livestream pilot to enhance the modern federal workforce with training, education and awareness of emerging technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Blockchain, Social Technologies and Virtual/Augmented Reality.

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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Emerging Citizen Technology Office (ECTO)

Brian Behlendorf

Do you want to learn how to create a successful video strategy from beginning to end?

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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Video Production Pros

Steve Lewis

Bryce Spivey

This afternoon event is an opportunity for API practitioners from across federal agencies to come together, share news, and discuss topics of interest. Remote participants will be able to join in via Google Hangout. Anyone with a federal .gov or .mil address is welcome to attend.

Join the the Plain Language Community of Practice for an hour-long conversation about how best to revise forms and convince your agency that the long-term benefits outweigh the cost.

Hosted by Digital.gov and the Plain Language

Introducing Accessibility for Teams

A quick-start guide for embedding accessibility and inclusive design into a team’s workflow.

Maya Benari

Jul 10, 2018

Federal employees who have been involved in running a prize competition for their agencies at any point during fiscal years 2017 and 2018 should attend this information session on prize reporting.

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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Challenge.gov

Jennifer Shieh

Shirley Han

Tammy White

This month, the USWDS team will share what’s coming up in version 2.0 which is set to launch later this summer.

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Hosted by Digital.gov and the U.S. Web Design System

Dan Williams

Maya Benari

How One Team is Making the Transition to Agile

A hybrid approach of waterfall and agile practices is helping the USGS make the transition to agile.

Andrew J. Stauffer

Jun 26, 2018

Join us for a 90-minute demonstration and talk with Steve Krug, where he will share how you can get started making usability fixes, no matter what your full-time job is.

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Hosted by Digital.gov and the User Experience Community of Practice

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This online class will dive deeper into the benefits of integrating Google Search Console with your independently managed Google Analytics account

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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Digital Analytics Program

Freddie Blicher

Tim Lowden

Marybeth Murphy

Join the Code.mil team for a discussion on open source in government and a look at the important work they have been doing on Code.mil to enable greater adoption of open source at the DoD.

Hosted by Digital.gov and the Code.mil

Ari Chivukula

Jordan Kasper

Join us for our monthly conversation with designers and developers across the government.

Hosted by Digital.gov and the U.S. Web Design System

Join Brad Frost as he talks about design systems and the role they play in creating a successful, collaborative structure for modern organizations.

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Brad Frost

Join Search.gov as they walk you through the fundamentals of how search engines monitor your content and pull relevant data from your pages.

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Dawn Pointer McCleskey

Learn how U.S. college students working remotely can be virtual interns for you and your federal government teams through the Virtual Student Federal Service.

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Bridget Roddy

Nora Dempsey

This half-day online class will expand upon the basics of Google Analytics.

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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Digital Analytics Program

Freddie Blicher

Tim Lowden

News and Updates

Innovative work, news, and ideas from people and teams in government

Plain Language Summit 2018

DAP Learning Series: Analytics and Accessibility

Experiments in Tweaking Agile for UX

Emerging Technology Leadership Series: Brian Behlendorf and Blockchain

An Inside Look at How the FBI Develops Engaging Video

Government API Community of Practice - Quarterly Check-In

PLAIN Language: Forms-a-palooza

Introducing Accessibility for Teams

What You Need to Know: Required Prize Reporting to Congress

A First Look at USWDS 2.0

How One Team is Making the Transition to Agile

Usability Testing with Steve Krug

Funding the Future: Technology Modernization Fund Proposal Workshop

DAP Learning Series: Using the Search Console

Free & Open Source Software in Government with Code.mil

U.S. Web Design System Monthly Call

How Design Systems Help Us Work Together — with Brad Frost

How Search Engines Index Your Websites

Get to Know the Virtual Student Federal Service

DAP Learning Series: Advanced Concepts