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18F Methods Collection
A collection of tools to bring human-centered design into your project.
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7 Ways to Ignite User-Centered Design at Your Agency
Some tips for success when introducing user-centered design (UCD) to your organization.
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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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Barriers to Government’s Adoption of User-centered Design — And How To Address Them
In this article we’ll provide an overview of four of the most common barriers heard, and how federal agencies might go about addressing them.
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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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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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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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Senior Research Designer
This is a job description for the role of Senior Research Designer from the City of Philadelphia Office of the Chief Administrator (CAO).
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Senior Design Researcher
This is a job description for the role of Senior Design Researcher from the Canadian Digital Service (CDS).
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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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Want to design policies that really work? Test them on the users who need them first
A step-by-step guide to how New Jersey used plain language and user-testing to improve the state’s paid family and medical leave program
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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.