Year: 2024
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Digital Service Network 2024 Year in Review
Explore the publications, resources, events, and convenings produced by the Digital Service Network in 2024.
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Automation + AI Public Sector AI Playbook
The "Public Sector AI Playbook" provides public sector officers with practical guidance on adopting and implementing AI technologies to improve government operations, service delivery, and policymaking.
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User Research User Testing for Community-Focused Design
City of Saint Paul's website for community members to sign up to participate in paid research opportunities in order to test and provide feedback on the design of digital services and products.
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Communications Communication + Engagement Lab Playbook
This Playbook is produced by the New Jersey State Office of Innovation’s to help government resources better connect their audiences and constituents to their programs. In this resource, readers will find a step-by-step process to uncover and validate an approach that will can guide your constituents to act— appropriate for all roles, including communications director, program manager, developer, product manager, or public policy practitioner.
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User Research City of Saint Paul User Recruitment Services Resolution
The user recruitment services resolution passed in Saint Paul, MN for a third year in a row in 2024. It allows for city funds to be used to compensate community members who participate in research.
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Human-Centered Design Scaling Form Improvements in State Government
This session from FormFest 2024 features Arizona’s form improvement capacity building initiative and Massachusetts’ form improvements that were a result of the Delivering a Digital-First Public Experience act.
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Human-Centered Design Education Forms From Preschool to College
This session from FormFest 2024 features the South Carolina Early Childhood Advisory Council’s work developing a single portal to integrate applications for publicly funded programs and services, and the office of Federal Student Aid’s work on the FAFSA form.
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Human-Centered Design Form Accessibility Improvements
This session from FormFest 2024 focuses on accessibility, featuring British Columbia’s work to improve legal form usability and tips from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction on making forms more accessible overall.
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Human-Centered Design Scaling Out Government Assistance
This session from FormFest 2024 focused on how to help people get the assistance they need from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ work on the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and the Maryland Social Services Administration’s work to improve welfare support for kinship caregivers.
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Human-Centered Design Improving Digital Service Design
This session from FormFest 2024 focused on improving service delivery by hearing about work in multiple cities to rapidly digitize service delivery and work by the Department of Veteran Affairs around implementing service design principles in form revisions.
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Automation + AI All Things Artificial Intelligence
This session from FormFest 2024 walked attendees through some of the major changes AI is bringing to form design. Learn about the National Head Start Association’s use of AI to reduce administrative burden and the Canadian Digital Service’s tips for protecting government applications systems from AI.
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Human-Centered Design Bringing SNAP Benefits at Scale
This session from FormFest 2024 focused on how governments are scaling their SNAP benefits programs, with Maryland’s improved integrated benefits application and the Office of Evaluation Sciences’ changes to questions on the SNAP application.