Topic: Human-Centered Design
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Problem Identification & Definition Workshop Miro
This workshop guide offers teams an opportunity to jointly work toward understanding core problems impacting digital delivery in their organization. The guide is structured in two parts: (1) a Miro template and (2) a Facilitation Guide.
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Weathering the Financial Aid Firestorm: A FormFest 2024 Profile
A profile on FormFest speakers Tait Chamberlain and Sean Cassidy, featuring stories about their motivations for working on public sector form innovation.
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Framing the Triangle: A FormFest 2024 Profile
A profile on FormFest speakers Paul Pistorius and Julian Rosner, featuring stories about their motivations for working on public sector form innovation.
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Participatory Planning to Build Stronger Early Childhood Policy and Programs
The article explores the importance of participatory planning in policymaking, emphasizing how engaging impacted communities improves program design, equity, and trust in government, with a focus on early childhood education initiatives.
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GOV.UK Design System
A web-based platform that provides design principles, accessible UI components, and guidance to help teams across the UK government create consistent, user-centered digital services.
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Three Principles for Implementing Work Requirements in a Human-Centered Way
This article offers three human‑centered strategies to help state agencies implement expanded work reporting requirements in SNAP and Medicaid under H.R. 1 with minimal burden on clients and staff.
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Monitoring Customer Feedback & Implementing Improvements in New Jersey: A FormFest 2025 Profile
This FormFest profile spotlights the New Jersey State Office of Innovation’s Feedback Widget team, which collects resident input across state websites to improve services and empower agencies to act on real-time feedback.
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Government of Canada Digital Standards
Canada’s Digital Standards are a set of principles that guide how public servants design, build, and run government digital services so they’re user-centered, accessible, secure, open, and trustworthy.
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Webinar Recording: Digital Doorways to Public Benefits
The Digital Benefits Network at the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University and Public Policy Lab co-hosted a webinar presenting breaking research on beneficiary experiences with digital identity processes in public benefits.
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Data Sharing to Drive the City of Philadelphia’s Zero Fare Program: A FormFest 2025 Profile
This FormFest profile explores how Philadelphia leveraged cross-department data sharing to launch its Zero Fare program, auto-enrolling eligible residents in unlimited transit benefits while tackling the challenge of outreach and trust-building to deliver passes effectively.
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Medicaid Work Requirements Service Blueprint (Printable 8.5×11)
This 8.5x11 service blueprint visually maps how Medicaid work requirements will function once implemented in 2027, detailing each policy step, system interaction, and client experience to help states identify administrative challenges and opportunities for human-centered redesign.
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Blueprinting Medicaid Work Requirements
This blog introduces Code for America’s new service blueprint for Medicaid work requirements, highlighting how it can help states map system changes, identify pain points, and prioritize human-centered design.