News and Updates

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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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.

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

Q&A With Ryan Day About GSA’s API Strategy

These new API standards will make it easier for GSA staff to launch and maintain good APIs.

Gray Brooks

Ryan Day

Mar 27, 2019

A Year in the Life of a PIF

As a Presidential Innovation Fellow in my second year, I often get asked by the newer class of PIFs coming in, “What does a successful PIF year typically look like?”

Zach Goldfine

Mar 26, 2019

In this webinar, Freddie Blicher, an analyst for the Digial Analytics Program, will discuss how to think about sessions and unique pageviews in reporting and content analysis.

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Freddie Blicher

Tim Lowden

Deep Dive: Using Data Technology + Innovation for Lyme Disease

A 14-week sprint delivered digital tools that used federal open data to address Lyme and tick-borne diseases.

Kristen Honey, PhD

Gil Alterovitz, PhD

Ed Simcox

Mar 18, 2019

In her path to becoming a product manager, she found the flexibility to explore new approaches to managing the product while periodically shaping her role into something that worked for the team. — via Office of Natural Resources Revenue

Mar 17, 2019

We’ll discuss how to document and publicize your formal and informal plain language work — teaching, training, reviewing, or copyediting.

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One step beyond mentorship is another practice called sponsorship: action-orientated, deeply invested support that helps others in their long-term professional advancement.

Ashley Wichman

Mar 13, 2019

Using Augmented Reality to Teach Kids about Currency

The U.S. Currency Education Program used research, prototyping, and user-feedback to develop a mobile app to teach young students about money.

Ayjah Thomas

Mar 05, 2019

How should designers collect data and how can they use that data to inform their work? Dalia El-Shimy, UX Research Lead at Shopify’s Montreal Office, will share how her team uses mixed methods research in support of its design decisions.

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Andrew Maier

Ben Peterson

Dalia El-Shimy

Deep Dive: How a Health Tech Sprint Pioneered an AI Ecosystem

Seven teams created digital tools that help in finding experimental therapies for patients, and for clinical trials to recruit new patients.

Gil Alterovitz, PhD

Davar Ardalan

Kristen Honey, PhD

Feb 27, 2019

Why Our Country Needs More Civic Tech Leaders

Government is a great place to work for technologists, data scientists, designers and entrepreneurs who want to serve and solve problems for the American people.

Feb 26, 2019

For this event, DAP has partnered with the fine folks who run the Federal Privacy Council’s Tech Tuesday Series to teach us how to measure, analyze, and improve experiences for users visiting privacy pages on your agency websites.

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Tim Lowden