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Guidance on building better digital services in government
A User-Centered Approach: Simplicity and Complexity in a Homepage Graphic—UX interns go through the redesign and testing process of a homepage graphic to communicate the scope the site.
Presidential Innovation Fellow Kaeli Yuen shares tips for developing clinician- and patient-centered healthcare tools.
Learn how multilingual glossaries set your content translations up for success by maintaining consistency and lightening the workload for future translations.
Twitter Chats as Effective Outreach—For over a decade, USA.gov and USAGov en Español have used Twitter to reach the public, amplifying information for our agency partners in English and Spanish. See six of the best practices followed and lessons learned during a two-hour live Twitter chat with the Federal Trade Commission and Social Security Administration for National Consumer Protection Week 2021.— via USA.gov
GSA is launching the Innovation Adoption Community of Practice on Digital.gov to connect those who embrace innovative methods and practices that improve government service delivery.
GSA Future Focus: Web Scraping—Often referred to as screen scraping, web harvesting, or web crawling, web scraping is a process that extracts unstructured data and text from web pages, and converts it into a form that can be easily analyzed. Learn how GSA’s Emerging Tech team has identified some best practices to help agencies use this technology responsibly and effectively.— via General Services Administration
Your Experience Matters—The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provides a broad range of services to internal and external customers, including researchers, visitors, educators, genealogists, students, veterans, information technologists, federal agencies and more. Archivist of the United States (AOTUS) David Ferriero has hired the agency’s first Chief Customer Experience Officer, Stephanie Bogan, to help focus as an agency on the public’s experience. The agency’s management team has also been deputized to become their Customer Experience Executive Council in order to make customer-focused decisions for the agency and move it forward.— via National Archives and Records Administration
A Presidential Innovation Fellow working with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs shares how complex organizations can create data-driven roadmaps.
Making It Easier for People to Find Federal Agencies—Finding contact information for a federal department or agency is a top task at USA.gov and USAGov en Español. Our A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies directory is a popular feature and the result of many years of user testing and website user metrics.— via USA.gov
Four lessons learned from the similarities and differences between highly-regulated companies and the federal government.
The questions in this post were curated from attendees of the Deep Fakes and Social Media Webinar, hosted by the SocialGov Community of Practice and Digital.gov on May 18, 2021.
Digital.gov
An official website of the U.S. General Services Administration
