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Open data design at the U.S. Department of the Interior
Teaching digital skills: learning usability testing by peer training
February 7, 2019Our user experience designer has been running the usability testing process from recruiting participants to building prototypes – by herself. We decided it would be helpful to peer-train two of our program analysts to conduct usability testing. In this post, we share the training process and what we learned.
How we rebuilt our open-data homepage part two: development
December 20, 2018In our second post about our homepage rebuild, we share how we converted our homepage to GatsbyJS with React, GraphQL, and D3 to visualize data sourced from Excel files, as we refactor the entire site.
How we rebuilt our open-data homepage part one: design
December 6, 2018We recently rebuilt the Natural Resources Revenue Data homepage. In this first post about the rebuild, we'll share how a revised product vision and user research led us to the redesign. We'll also share our design priorities and prototypes.