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Civic User Research Playbook
Guidance for City of Long Beach, CA staff on how to uplift community voices through user research to create services that are accessible to all City residents.
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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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Public Participation and Community Engagement Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to support government agencies in evaluating the effectiveness of their public participation and community engagement (PPCE) activities.
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Case study: Designing trauma-informed services
This case study is about a project in the City of Philadelphia with the Office of Homeless Services (OHS) from January 2018 to September 2019.
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Determining the true value of a website: A GSA case study
GSA has developed a composite indicator to visualize six key components of website success.
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Digital Services Playbook
The playbook outlines 13 essential principles for effective digital projects drawn from successful practices from the private and public sectors.
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Engaging People with Lived Experience to Improve Federal Research, Policy, and Practice
This webpage links to materials ASPE has prepared as it leads work on how federal agencies and programs can meaningfully and effectively engage people with lived experience.
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Challenges of participation in large-scale public projects
This paper analyzes the unique challenges of conducting participatory design in large-scale public projects, focusing on stakeholder management, fostering engagement, and integrating participatory methods into institutional transformation.
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Digital.gov Research Resources
Resources from Digital.gov on research
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SDCI User Research Participant Compensation Policy
The SDCI User Research Participant Compensation Policy establishes guidelines for providing honoraria to user research participants, ensuring equitable, ethical, and inclusive engagement in SDCI’s UX research.
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Customer experience and human-centered design
Customer experience is the application of design within a business context to craft the human experience.
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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.