Intended Audience: Federal/National Government: Agency
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Human-Centered Design Helping Government Agencies Understand and Invest in Their Capacity for Digital Delivery
The Digital Service Network worked closely with stakeholders from the Texas Education Academy (TEA) to develop resources for a structured approach in helping identify and better understand core challenges in government digital delivery.
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Human-Centered Design Interview Template Digital Delivery Assessment
This interview template includes questions designed to help teams conduct exploratory, semi-structured interviews with government stakeholders involved in program delivery to gather information that can help them evaluate the status quo of digital delivery in their organization.
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Human-Centered Design Problem Identification & Definition Workshop Miro
This workshop guide offers teams an opportunity to jointly work toward understanding core problems impacting digital delivery in their organization. The guide is structured in two parts: (1) a Miro template and (2) a Facilitation Guide.
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Youth How Do Children and Society Benefit from Public Investments in Children?
The federal government's investments in children are crucial in addressing poverty and have long-term benefits across multiple domains, such as health, education, and economic stability, illustrating how support in one area can lead to positive outcomes in others.
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Policy Family Benefits in America: 2023 Report Card
This report calculates the cumulative impact of major benefit programs on two types of families and how their benefits change as they move into the labor market and climb the ladder of upward mobility.
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Human-Centered Design Problem Identification & Definition Workshop Facilitation Guide
This workshop guide offers teams an opportunity to jointly work toward understanding core problems impacting digital delivery in their organization. The guide is structured in two parts: (1) a Miro template and (2) a Facilitation Guide.
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Engineering + Software Development Summary Report of 2023 RFI on Open Source-Software Security Initiative
The RFI summary report consolidates submissions received from the open-source software community and details twelve activities that members of the OS3I plan—or have completed—in 2024-2025.
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Product Management The Product Model in Government
The article suggests that applying a product model to government agencies can enhance service effectiveness and public impact.
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Policy Mixed-Status Families and Immigrant Families with Children Continued Avoiding Safety Net Programs in 2023
Despite Biden administration reversals to prior policies, Urban Institute data from 2023 shows that many immigrant families, especially those with children or mixed status, continue to avoid benefits amid ongoing economic challenges.
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Management Methods for Leading a Modern Government
The Modern Government Leaders program brought together federal executive innovators to share best practices and drive service delivery and process modernization.
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Human-Centered Design Building a culture of customer experience across government
The federal government is working to improve customer experience through human-centered approaches, as seen in the 2021 executive order establishing interagency teams to focus on pivotal life experiences. Lessons learned from these efforts emphasize the importance of embracing risk, fostering partnerships, and keeping end users at the center of the design process to enhance the delivery of government services.
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Human-Centered Design A Review of Human-Centered Design in Human Services
In this brief, they present a definition of HCD that is applicable to the context of human services delivery, differentiate HCD from similar design and problem-solving approaches, and describe how HCD is being used in human services.