Design
Resources on Design
Addressing Barriers to User-Centered Design —An overview of the most common barriers and how federal agencies might address them.
The basics of human-centered design in government —How the Lab at OPM drives innovation through design education
An Introduction to USWDS 2.0 —A design system for the federal government.
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18F Accessibility Guide —A resource for developing accessible products.
Accessibility for Teams —A guide to making products more accessible for everyone.
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USWDS Maturity Model —How to adopt the design system incrementally and design and build better digital experiences.
Best Practices for Writing for the Accessible Web —Tips for making online information accessible for those with auditory and visual needs.
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18F Guide to Product Management —Best practices on doing product management well
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18F Methods —A collection of tools that describe how teams can put human-centered design into practice.
Tools and Services
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18F —We help government agencies fix technical problems, build products, and improve how government serves the public through technology.
Presidential Innovation Fellows —We help government agencies fix technical problems, build products, and improve how government serves the public through technology.
U.S. Digital Service —We deploy small, responsive groups of designers, engineers, product managers, and bureaucracy specialists to work with and empower civil …
10x —Provides funding for new technology projects or products across government, from the TTS office of investments.
DotGov Registry —We make it easy to register and manage a .gov domain for US-based government organizations.
OPM Labs —A team of designers with diverse backgrounds that help agencies address complex challenges and build human-centered design capacity across …
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U.S. Web Design System —A toolkit of principles, guidance, and code that helps agency digital teams build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites for the …
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Directory of services, tools, and teams —Shared services and tools offered by the GSA and other agencies.
Join a Community of Practice
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U.S. Web Design System Community —Making it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites for the public.
News and Events on Design
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How Serving in Government Made Me a Better Designer and Product Manager
Code.gov Better Know an Engineer: Rayvn Manuel—We’re back with another installment of Better Know an Engineer. We are pleased to feature a friend of Code.gov and all-around amazing person, Rayvn Manuel; senior application developer and DevOps engineer at the Smithsonian Insitute's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). — via Code.gov
Giving Users the Information They Crave: Data and Analytics Tips From USAGov en Español—User data guides what we do at USAGov. Without it, we wouldn’t know what government questions people are searching for. And we wouldn’t know how to design our content to make it easier for people to find and understand the answers. — via USA.gov
Building Trust in a Public Health Crisis—Lately, the 18F content team has been thinking about how to communicate well in a crisis—providing clear, understandable content is especially important. Content strategy practices that focus on the needs of the user are essential to earning the trust of the public. Here, we will explain how to embody those qualities on the web in user-centered ways. — via 18F
"Diga o marque 2": USAGov en Español’s New Approach to Interactive Voice Response—USAGov receives and responds to questions directly from the public in many ways: through social media, on page surveys on USA.gov and USAGov en Español, and through chats and calls. One powerful tool in the USAGov toolbelt is our interactive voice response (IVR) system in both English and Spanish through the USAGov Contact Center. — via USA.gov
