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Functionality and Usability Testing Resources
Functionality testing verifies that the functions of a product or service is working as intended. Each function is tested by providing appropriate input, verifying the output and comparing the actual...
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Mobile Application Development Program Webinar and Wikithon Tomorrow!
Anytime, anywhere government information and services are becoming more important as the public increasingly consumes information and services on the go. As we announced last week, agencies can now...
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Mobile Gov User Experience Resources and Design Tools
In September 2013, the Mobile Gov Community of Practice released user experience guidelines and recommendations for federal agencies to use in order to create good mobile user experiences. This article...
View ArticleMobileGov Mystery: Getting Buy-in and Other Challenges In Your Mobile Web...
REGISTER NOW Responsive Web Design is a highly popular way to make anytime, anywhere content available on mobile devices and it is being implemented at various agencies in the federal government. Like...
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Trends on Tuesday: Top Five Trends in Mobile App Design for 2015
DenisKot/iStock/Thinkstock Mobile user habits are a moving target, and designers have to adjust accordingly. Creative Bloq offers their Top 5 Trends in App Design for 2015 gathered from trends in...
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Trends on Tuesday: Big Ideas from Mobile World Congress
Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest mobile infrastructure, software, hardware, product and app show, took place in Barcelona, Spain, and I attended for the fifth time. This year’s show...
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CareerOneStop’s Newest Online Resources: Targeted to User Needs
When the Employment and Training Administration’s CareerOneStop team embarked on a redesign of the site’s online career, training, and job resources, they didn’t dive right into the technical work....
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Helpful Resources to Make Your Content Mobile-Friendly
monicaodo/iStock/Thinkstock Smartphones make up 75% of the mobile market—which makes mobile-friendliness a must for government agencies. With the recent update to Google’s search algorithm, or what...
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Trends on Tuesday: Thinking about Your Agency’s “Glanceable” Moment Strategy
ponsuwan/iStock/Thinkstock Mobile device penetration is growing, with larger screens providing more real-estate for content and users completing more complex tasks over longer periods of engagement....
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Trends on Tuesday: Native App Lessons from the CrowdSource Mobile Testing...
Wavebreakmedia Ltd/Wavebreak Media/Thinkstock The more you test, the more you know. We recently highlighted lessons learned from the CrowdSource Mobile Testing Program, discussed the mobile emulator...
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Mobile Content: Less is More
With 14 test cycles under our belt, the Federal CrowdSource Mobile Testing Program has heard one recurring theme from our testers—”there’s too much information!” While both desktop monitor and...
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Trends on Tuesday: Focus on Mobile Performance to Provide Better Mobile Moments
tzahiV/iStock/Thinkstock The New York Times recently published a report evaluating the cost of mobile ads on news websites and found that on many of the major sites, the ads were taking as much...
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Trends on Tuesday: Forecasting the Internet of Things
Bobboz/iStock/Thinkstock An industry group tracking the growth and production of the “Internet of Things,” a term given to Internet-connected devices and accessories, is predicting that growth will...
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Trends on Tuesday: 5 Tips for Designing Touch Interactions
Josh Clark, one of the pioneers of touch Web design, and author of Tapworthy and Designing for Touch, published an excellent article on A List Apart analyzing How We Hold Our Gadgets that has a wealth...
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GSA.gov Refreshed with Eye Toward Mobile Users
GSA unveiled a refreshed GSA.gov website yesterday with a more crisp design layout, improved usability, and features geared more toward mobile users. Increasingly, website traffic is coming from mobile...
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The Data Briefing: How Neuroscience and Communication Theory Inform Good User...
Standing on the corner, waiting in the rain, I swear I’ll never, ever, use that app again. Why? Because the bad user experience (UX) design was preventing me from determining when the Metrobus would...
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Trends on Tuesday: 10 Mobile, Government and Tech Trends for 2016
As we move into 2016, here are 10 trends I foresee flourishing around mobile, technology and government: The mobile-majority tipping point in government. Many agencies are already past this point, but...
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Trends on Tuesday: Will Phablets Dominate the Mobile Market in 2017?
Phablets, once mocked for their large size, may be the next big form factor dominating mobile devices, if new data from the holiday season is any indication. Flurry Analytics Flurry Mobile, part of...
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