Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Roundup from GovHack 2017

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Starting in a single Canberra venue in 2009, GovHack is now the largest open data hacking competition for government worldwide, with over ...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Australian government ePetitions compared to international models

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Australians might be surprised to learn that the Australian parliament only agreed to formally accept ePetitions in July 2015 . That wa...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Don't ask for more information than you need (and make it clear why you're asking what you're asking)

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I've just become aware of the ACT Government's consultation for a new license plate slogan. Hosted at Your Say , the government i...
Thursday, July 07, 2016

There's no silver bullets, but there's silver toolkits

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During this Public Sector Innovation Month , I thought I should focus my eGovAU posts a little more closely on the topic of innovation. I...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

The feng shui of innovation

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Many organisations have begun integrating words from the language of innovation into their vocabularies. It's increasingly common to ...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Australian governments need to stop treating citizens as free consultants

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Across April I'm spending a week participating in government-run sessions to contribute to the democratic life of our nation. I...
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Friday, December 04, 2015

Australian Tax Office (finally) considering going digital by default, but walk and talk don't match

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The Australian Tax Office (ATO) is currently asking Australians what they think of the idea of the ATO going digital by default . As they...
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Friday, August 14, 2015

Government digital service designers need to start thinking with their stomachs

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Traditionally governments have taken cues from banks and social networks for innovative ways to design online services to make them easier ...
Monday, July 13, 2015

If you want to see the impact of poor user interface design, look no further than Canberra's parking meters

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User interface design (or UX design) has been a buzz term for several years in government, with agencies spending significant money on ensu...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

GovInnovate Day 1: Government must do more than tinker around the edges

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This morning at GovInnovate 2014 we heard a keynote from Dominic Campbell, founder and CEO of FutureGov . Now up at #govinnovate is Domi...
Friday, September 19, 2014

Designing the sharing state - an interview with Steve Schmid of the Open Technology Foundation

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This is the fourth in a series of interviews I'm doing as part of Delib Australia's media partnership with CeBIT in support of  Gov...
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Save the date for BarCamp Canberra - 15 March 2014

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The 7th annual BarCamp Canberra has just been announced and will be taking place on Saturday 15 March this year at the Gungahlin Library. ...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Social Media specifications guide

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One challenge organisations may face with social media is designing their account pages to reflect their common look. I've seen many ...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Can an 'open' government site be open if it is poorly designed?

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I was chatting with Paul Davis on Twitter recently about the The State Decoded , an open source US-developed platform for accessibly and o...
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