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Vendors and government strengthen partnership at Technology Industry Day
on September 19, 2016
The Technology Transformation Service (TTS) is already absorbing the first-mover risk of introducing modern tools and techniques, but we know that only with the help of industry will this transformation be able to spread across the federal government. As we all bring agile methodologies, human-centered design, and modular design to the government, the opportunity to improve federal digital services is immense.
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Sign up for the Technology Industry Day
on August 30, 2016
On September 8, GSA is hosting its very first Technology Industry Day. Sign up to hear about how GSA is transforming technology in the federal government, see demos of products and solutions developed by TTS and, last but not least, provide feedback on how we can work better with industry.
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Tackling challenges facing cities in collaboration with all levels of government
on May 11, 2016
Superpublic, a first-of-its-kind innovation lab, will bring members of federal, state, and local governments together to collaborate with academia and private industry to foster innovative solutions to problems facing cities.
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Video highlights from 18F speeches over the last year
on March 24, 2016
Over the past year, members of our distributed team have given talks in over 30 locations about how we’re changing government digital services. Topics have ranged from how we work to how we help the government build and buy software to how people can join the 18F team.
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San Diego summit opens doors to technology partnerships
on March 8, 2016
On March 18, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) will co-host the San Diego Summit on Emerging Digital Technology and Government as part of our work to bring new, emerging technology to the federal government.
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Building a better government design team
on October 2, 2015
Building a high-performing design team is tough under the best of circumstances. Add in governmental regulations, a distributed workforce, and rapid growth of the parent organization, and the process is even tougher.
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Four questions with the CFPB design team
on September 21, 2015
Designers Mollie Bates and Natalia Fitzgerald will be speaking tomorrow at 18F on their experience building the design team at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), as well as more generally on their approaches to user-centered design.
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Making websites more like M&Ms
on August 26, 2015
Web standards and accessibility expert Aaron Gustafson recently came to 18F to speak about progressive enhancement and to challenge designers to improve user experience across browsers and devices.
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Improving the healthcare.gov experience
on June 25, 2015
In this video from the recent moveForward(100); event, Eric Maland of USDS explains the new improvements to the healthcare.gov application system, and how his team of eight developers helped save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars per year.
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Imagining a water cooler for the digital age
on June 24, 2015
Last week, information architect Thomas Vander Wal came to 18F to lead a discussion on his research into social and internal collaboration in the workspace.
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What Estonia can teach us about the future of government records
on June 17, 2015
At 18F, we were thrilled to meet for a discussion on digital services, cyber security, and IT funding with Estonia's most prominent technologists.
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Where we were for the National Day of Civic Hacking
on June 11, 2015
Last weekend, thousands of civic hackers from across the country came together for the National Day of Civic Hacking to better their communities. We love this kind of stuff, and couldn't help but get involved.
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How digital humanitarians responded to the Nepal earthquake
on June 11, 2015
When Nepal was hit with a devastating earthquake on April 25, the folks at MapGive and others in the OpenStreetMap community sprang into action, organizing volunteer mappers and coordinating with mapping teams on the ground in Kathmandu.
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Video: What happens when you collect .gov-wide analytics
on May 29, 2015
See the power of open data and open source software in this presentation about analytics.usa.gov from 18F’s Leah Bannon and Charles Worthington of the U.S. Digital Service.
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Dan Brown: The art of conflict in design process
on May 27, 2015
On Friday, author and designer Dan Brown gave a talk at 18F. “Stop fighting, start designing,” centered around the design process and inherent conflict therein.
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Five questions with Dan Brown
on May 19, 2015
Dan Brown, co-founder of D.C.-based design firm EightShapes and author of Communicating Design and Designing Together, has spent years studying how and why conflict arises in the workplace, its centrality to good design, the differences between healthy and unhealthy conflict, and more. Dan will be speaking at 18F on Friday, May 22 at 1:30 PM.
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The digital services flash mob
on May 11, 2015
Members of the growing federal digital family presented their work at the inaugural moveForward(100); event last week, which featured workshopping, lightning talks, and product demos.
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Hackathons: not just for folks who code
on April 21, 2015
A few members of the 18F team recently published an excellent guide on welcoming new coders to civic hackathons. In the same vein, we’d like to offer a list of strategies for including non-technical folks in your hackathons.
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ACT-IAC event on DevOps in the government
on April 20, 2015
Themed 'Achieve Agile Nirvana Through DevOps,' the education and training event will be held from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on Friday, May 1 at the General Services Administration, 1800 F Street NW, in Washington, D.C.
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In case you missed it: #a11yhack, an accessibility hackathon
on April 7, 2015
Improving accessibility and 508 awareness is one of 18F’s ongoing goals. In support of this goal, we recently hosted a11yhack, a website accessibility hackathon.
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How to welcome new coders to a civic hackathon
on April 3, 2015
The National Day of Civic Hacking is a great time to attend — or host your first hackathon. We’ve outlined some strategies for first-time hackathon hosts to ensure new participants feel welcome, and help them maximize their contributions.
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GovTechHack: hacking for civic improvement
on April 2, 2015
On a recent breezy San Francisco evening, groups of developers, designers, marketing folks, and others convened for GovTechHack — a hackathon for civic good. The event’s premise was simple: To bring together people interested in improving the accessibility and transparency of federal digital resources for a two-day work session.
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Intro to APIs: Working with URLs, JSON, APIs, and Open Data — without writing any code
on June 25, 2014
June 27, 2014, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Register now. GSA’s digital teams are offering a user-friendly intro course to APIs. Regardless of your skill level, you will walk away from this lesson understanding what APIs are and how developers use them.
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Ask us (almost) anything
on April 1, 2014
GitHub for Government did their very first AMA (Ask Me Anything) last week with Philadelphia's Chief Data Officer, Mark Headd. After some prodding by GitHub's Head Bureaucat, Ben Balter, 18F decided to use this new avenue to do some Q and A.
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