Digital.gov

Guidance on building better digital services in government

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Popular Guides and Resources

Checklist of Requirements for Federal Websites and Digital Services —The relevant laws, policies, and regulations for federal agencies.
Customer Experience Toolkit —This Toolkit is intended to help government agencies improve how we deliver services and information to the public.
Eight Principles of Mobile-Friendliness —Following these principles will help you make your site more usable and user-friendly.
Guide to Robotic Process Automation —Automate reptitive business processes without writing code
Required Web Content and Links —A list of required links that all federal websites need to have
USWDS Maturity Model —How to adopt the design system incrementally and design and build better digital experiences.

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Open Data

Census-Led Prize Challenge Incentivizes Using Open Data for Good

The Open Data for Good Grand Challenge is now welcoming submissions from technologists and collaborators focused on deploying products with federal open data, as well as recruiting for qualified judges to score the submissions and help select winners!

Haley Ashcom

Oct 08, 2021

Civic Tech

Building a Tech Career in Government

Starting a civic tech career in government is not as unusual as you think. Current GSA employees share how they are building theirs.

Dahianna Salazar Foreman

Oct 07, 2021

Multilingual

USAGov en Español Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

Since 2003, one program in GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS) has been leading the way in which the government serves the Spanish-speaking community in the U.S. That program is USAGov en Español, the official guide to government information and services in Spanish.

USAGov Outreach Team

Oct 06, 2021

Strategy

Digital Meets Culture: Getting Your Culture in Line With Your Digital Strategy

A recap of the July 15, 2021 Digital.gov event hosted by the Web Managers Community.

Ruxi Giura

Sep 28, 2021

Challenge.gov

Spotlight Chat: Planning a Federal Prize Competition

Recap of a Spotlight Chat event with members of the Lab-to-Market Inclusive Innovation Ecosystem Prize Competition.

Quinn Slayton

Sep 02, 2021

User Experience

Building a Bureau-Wide Usability Collaboration Group: Lessons Learned from the U.S. Geological Survey

Learn about the U.S. Geological Survey’s Usability Collaboration Area in this short interview with the group’s organizer.

Holly Chandler

Sep 01, 2021

Introducing the U.S. Digital Corps—GSA, with the White House, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has launched the U.S. Digital Corps, a new two-year fellowship offering a new path to public service for early-career technologists. To build a highly-skilled U.S. Digital Corps that represents the diversity of the United States, the U.S. Digital Corps will recruit passionate, mission-driven technologists from undergraduate programs as well as alternative training pathways such as apprenticeships, bootcamps, and certificate programs. — via General Services Administration

Aug 30, 2021

GSA Future Focus: IT Innovation—Federal IT innovation programs can improve mission effectiveness and also reduce long-term risk and cost. In this month’s post from the Emerging Technology Office at GSA, learn more about creating a successful IT innovation program for your agency. — via General Services Administration

Aug 19, 2021

Social Media

Key Insights from the White House Director of Digital Strategy, Robert Flaherty

An inside look at how the White House is thinking about digital strategy.

Mara Goldberg

Aug 18, 2021

Robotic Process Automation

5 Tips for Implementing Citizen Development in Your RPA Program

Guidance and best practices for federal robotic process automation programs looking to operationalize citizen developers

James Gregory

Aug 16, 2021