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State program leaders, county administrators, and civic tech partners joined U.S. Digital Response for a webinar on an urgent challenge: how do states actually reduce SNAP payment error rates before the clock runs out?
Learn how government agencies can hire UX talent and build strong user-centered design practices. Explore practical strategies for growing UX capacity, improving workflows, and delivering better public services.
Election officials are heading into the 2026 cycle facing familiar pressures in new combinations: rapid legal and technological change, persistent distrust, workforce turnover, evolving security threats and a communications environment in which false claims and public confusion can spread faster than offices can respond.
USDR’s partners share a goal of establishing COVID-19 vaccinations as a social norm that is both acceptable and regarded as collectively beneficial. Examining their communications through an equity lens is essential to meeting this goal.
I have been volunteering with U.S. Digital Response because I am passionate about helping make government services as accessible, human, and efficient as possible — both for those seeking help as well as for the public servants and partners who deliver these services.
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After the year we’ve all had, we think it’s important to acknowledge the pain, pressure and loss felt by our communities — and to also make time for a brief pause to celebrate all those who spent this year in service of their communities, doing hard and intensely important work to meet those critical needs.
On May 5, U.S. Digital Response brought together a virtual panel of some of the best in government and technology to reflect on what’s happened over the last year, how we’ve supported communities in need, what we’ve learned, and what digital response efforts will look like in future crises.
Over the past year, U.S. Digital Response (USDR) and Colorado Digital Service (CDS) tried something new. Less than a year into both forming, we decided to experiment with ways that a government digital services team and an organization offering pro bono technical expertise could partner to get things done in a moment of global crisis.
Kammi Foote administered elections for 14 years and served as the Clerk Recorder & Registrar of Voters for Inyo County, Calif., for 10 years.
“Does anyone know of any opportunities to contribute UX research skills to good causes?” read an email from a fellow user experience (UX) researcher. I was curious about what responses he’d get because I was also interested in volunteering.
Pennsylvania's Department of Labor and Industry engaged USDR's Unemployment Insurance team to better understand the claimant user experience and improve its designs.
As of April 1, 55 million people in the U.S. have received their full COVID-19 vaccinations. By mid-April, 90% of remaining adults will be eligible to receive the vaccine.