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Hiring Spotlight: Maryland Family and Medical Leave Insurance
The Digital Service Network (DSN) recently sat down with the Maryland Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) team to learn more about an exciting role they’re hiring for.
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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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Why human-centered testing is crucial to building government software
This article reviews two examples of how Nava has used open-source technologies to bring human-centered testing practices to government services software.
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Responsible Design for Digital Communities
This tool kit brings together emergent best practices, workflows, and tools that communities, educators, mutual aid groups, designers, artists and activists are using for community building, and how design needs to change to best suit people, right now.
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18F Methods: Validate
Testing (and re-testing) your designs with users will help you build the best possible product. Our Validate Methods cover varied testing scenarios and potential user groups.
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City of St. Paul User Experience Participation Legislation
Policy from the City of Saint Paul to provide compensation to those participating in user experience research and usability testing.
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Grounded in Collaboration: Seattle’s Journey to Building a Human-Centered Honoraria Policy: A Digital Service Network Spotlight
DSN Spotlights are short-form project profiles that feature exciting work happening across our network of digital government practitioners. Spotlights celebrate our members’ stories, lift up actionable takeaways for other practitioners, and put the examples we host in the Digital Government Hub in context.
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Design Resource Tools
Use these activities, tools, and how-tos as a starting point — we hope you’ll hack them for whatever challenge you’re working on.
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Planning Your Research Process
The Othering & Belonging Institute offers insight into research processes. The article is a part of the Institute's Transformative Research Toolkit, which focuses on centering lived experiences, valuing diverse ways of knowing, and influencing narratives and policies.
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Design Researcher
This is a job description for the role of Designer Researcher from the Canadian Digital Service (CDS).
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UX Research Cheat Sheet
A list of user research methods and activities that can help decide which to use and when.
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Is it working? Measuring the performance of your texting program
Cathay Beil, GSA, provides an overview of the importance of measuring program performance and outlines best practices.