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Doing Radical Things Right: Ethical Good Practice for Basic Income Experiments
The paper hopes to stimulate discussions towards an ethical protocol for better practice in BI experiments and provide a useful resource to those working on, or interested in, BI research.
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Governor Hochul Announces Initiative to Improve Food Benefit Access for Women, Infants and Children
Governor Kathy Hochul announced a new client feedback initiative in partnership with Code for America to improve New York's WIC program by implementing live online chat to gather input from participants, streamline enrollment, and increase access to healthy food for eligible families.
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Transformative Research Toolkit
This transformative research toolkit offers guidance on community-led research processes that center lived experiences and drive social change.
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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.
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MCPL User Survey Materials
The folder for conducting user surveys for the Montgomery County Public Libraries website redesign includes materials such as Homepage Usability Questions and a comprehensive Website Survey. These tools are designed to gather user feedback on the homepage's functionality and overall website experience, helping inform improvements that align with user needs and expectations.
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Tips for capturing the best data from user interviews
In this blog post, we’ve detailed some of the steps we take to help capture the best data possible when conducting interviews. This post is intended as a guide for people who need to conduct user interviews and for people simply curious about how we work.
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How User Research Can Help
Blog discussing how user research can help improve your agency’s benefits implementation, service delivery workflows, and procurement.
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Resident Engagement Resources from the Civic User Testing Group
Articles and resources from the Resident Engagement section of the City Tech's Civic User Testing group (CUTgroup) website. CUTgroup was a 1,600+ member civic engagement program that invited Chicago residents to contribute to emerging technology while providing public, private, and social sector partners with feedback to improve product design and deployment.
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Journeys and Experiences on the Path to Renewing Medicaid Health Coverage
Based on user interviews with families across the United States who navigated the Medicaid renewal process, this report offers insights and recommendations for improving the experience of renewing Medicaid and other benefits.
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Building a User Research Compensation Process from the Ground Up in Saint Paul: A Digital Service Network Spotlight
The Digital Service Network (DSN) spoke with Ashley O’Brien, user experience designer for the City of Saint Paul, MN, about the flexible and resourceful approach she took to reach people across the city.
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Human-Centered Design Guide Series
A series of guides from Digital.gov to help you understand and practice human-centered design
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User Experience Toolkit
City of Boston's User Experience Toolkit to support City employees in learning how to execute a UX project.