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How To Navigate Challenges to Successfully A/B Test Your Emails
The article will go over some best practices of implementing A/B testing on your emails.
Next for the U.S. Web Design System
What’s Next for the U.S. Web Design System—In 2020, we brought together researchers, designers, engineers, and policymakers to conduct research across dozens of federal agencies to help support emergency response efforts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Today we released a new and exciting report and strategy that outlines what’s next for the design system and our community. — via U.S. Web Design System

Security is Everyone’s Responsibility: Delivering Secure, Usable Login for Government
How login.gov incorporated human centered design and continuous discovery into their product development process to improve the user experience.
A Dashboard for Privacy Offices
A Dashboard for Privacy Offices—Through work funded by 10x, a team from 18F investigated how technology can help busy privacy offices manage your PII, and make their work more accessible and understandable for the public. — via 18F

Product lessons from the front lines of COVID-19 civic tech response
Two Presidential Innovation Fellows share how we can build digital services quickly without compromising quality for the public in times of crisis.
2 Lessons Tech Leaders Can Learn From Unprecedented Health Research
Presidential Innovation Fellows believe that representation, communication, and data fuel a strong product launch. Here’s how we put them to work at the National Institutes of Health.
2020 Government UX Summit: July 28, 29, and 30
A Guide For Agencies Building CX Capacity
GSA’s customer experience team has released a federal buying guide to aid agencies with buying CX Services.
Call for Participation: Government UX Summit 2020
We’re looking for speakers to share their experiences as UX practitioners in government.
Improving the Experience of Federal Grant Reporting
The 10x Federal Grant Reporting project team at GSA is investigating opportunities to make the grant reporting process more efficient.
Feedback-Driven Updates to the PRA Guide
This week, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), clarified the process for information collections associated with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). These changes include an easy to understand chart that lays out the steps for this sometimes hard to understand process, and are a direct result of the feedback they’ve been getting from the community. — via The Guide to the Paperwork Reduction Act

Human-centered design for IT centralization
Are you working on an IT centralization project? Here is why taking the time to prioritize users is important and will result in services that work better for the people you serve. — via 18F
