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How data and cultural knowledge come together to create bilingual content on USAGov’s benefit finder

How data and cultural knowledge come together to create bilingual content on USAGov’s benefit finder

Every year up to $140 billion in government benefits go unused. During this session, we’ll share our work with USAGov’s team to create a benefit finder to make finding benefits easy and accessible for everyone.
Secure, Performant, Scalable and Green: The big wins of a static Drupal website

Secure, Performant, Scalable and Green: The big wins of a static Drupal website

Drupal is the swiss-army-knife of content management systems. It provides the flexibility to build pretty much any site you want. This is why so many of us choose Drupal for our backend technology.
Government Summit

Government Summit pt1

Government Summit presents multiple case studies: Design systems, Chatbot implementation, and creating next-gen government website experiences.
Government Summit

Government Summit pt2

Ivan Duarte and Mike Herchel from Agileana present why we need to with the United States Web Design System (USWDS) and demo Gutenberg.
Drupal and the Open Web in the Australian Government 2024 Edition

Drupal and the Open Web in the Australian Government - 2024 edition

A look at statistics on the use of Drupal and the Open Web in Government - 2024 Edition
Using design systems to achieve success

Using design systems to achieve success

This presentation covers strategies to rapidly complete such projects, highlighting a three-week redesign for a national campaign using the Australian Government design system.
Government Portal- The story of building a Drupal distribution for the Estonian government

The story of building a Drupal distribution for the Estonian government

The Estonian Government is using Drupal CMS extensively. In this session, we will introduce the Government Portal - a Drupal distribution that the Estonian Government is using to run the websites of 11 ministries and their agencies.
Adopting an open source design system for GovCMS

Adopting an open source design system for GovCMS

Sharyn Clarkson is an Assistant Secretary at the Australian Government's Department of Finance and is one of the key leaders delivering the GovCMS platform to over 100 different federal agencies each with their own set of complex requirements and capabilities
A Balancing Act: Crafting Effective Design Systems in Limited-Resource Environments

A Balancing Act: Crafting Effective Design Systems in Limited-Resource Environments

A design system isn’t merely a set of components and rules, it’s a strong foundation of standards that facilitate collaboration, reduce redundancy, and ensure scalability. Implement and govern agile design system practices that thrive in resource-constrained environments.
Component-based design using Layout Paragraphs and the U.S. Web Design System

Component-based design using Layout Paragraphs and the U.S. Web Design System

How to utilize Layout Paragraphs, Theme Settings and Components to build out the most used components that every FED, State and Educational institution should use while avoiding the pitfalls that many agencies and web developers face.
Design Sprints: Designing, Prototyping, and Testing the New IRA Incentive Hub in 5 Days

Design Sprints: Designing, Prototyping, and Testing the New IRA Incentive Hub in 5 Days

Understanding what a design sprint is and what is needed to conduct one, as well as tangible insights and inspiration from a real-life example.
Designing Content Authoring Experiences

Designing Content Authoring Experiences

Why the authoring experience (AX) deserves to be a first-class citizen alongside UX and DX, and the steps we can take as contributors to help make that happen in Drupal core as well as the client projects we work on.
Look ma, no hands! How to manage Drupal content without technical skills

Look ma, no hands! How to manage Drupal content without technical skills.

In this session, we will demonstrate how easy it is to install, configure, and use to create and manage content for government websites.
Navigating the Digital Realm: A Journey Through the Eyes of a Screen Reader User

Navigating the Digital Realm: A Journey Through the Eyes of a Screen Reader User

This interactive conference session aims to provide participants with a profound insight into the challenges and experiences of blind individuals using screen readers to navigate websites.
One State, One Platform, One Team

One State, One Platform, One Team

Working with the NCDIT Digital Solutions team on the migration and redesign project for the State of North Carolina Drupal 10 multisite platform supporting 80 state agency websites
Putting CX at the Center of a DMV Website Redesign

Putting CX at the Center of a DMV Website Redesign

A case study for the website redesign and Drupal development work for the Commonwealth of Virginia DMV.
Revealing Insights: Transforming Drupal Data into Smart Decisions

Revealing Insights: Transforming Drupal Data into Smart Decisions

The art of harnessing Drupal's data to create actionable insights. We'll explore how data can be your compass for making informed choices.
The Art of Discovery

The Art of Discovery

The initial Discovery phase of a project can be highly strategic and complex. How can agencies catering to government projects do it, and do it well?
Website audit and archive guidance. What is it and why is it important?

Website audit and archive guidance. What is it and why is it important?

Reviewing and cleaning up your website will save you time and effort in the future, highlight potential content gaps, and show areas where you can improve functionality and the user experience.
Accessibility in design systems

Accessibility in design systems

The theme for Design System Day 2022 was ‘Inclusivity by Design’, and one key area of inclusivity is accessibility. To help us explore the intersection between accessibility and design systems, we assembled a panel of professionals who have a connection to both accessibility work and design systems. Our panellists come from a varied set of UK civil service, broader public sector and private sector organisations.
Better user and editor experience - exploring open data on GovCMS

Better user and editor experience - exploring open data on GovCMS

Julia Topliss, former Account Manager at Morpht, presents on work on the new IPEA website.
Mobile accessibility: building accessible mobile sites

Mobile accessibility: building accessible mobile sites and native apps for accessibility

Accessibility is important to all – not everyone using your mobile app, device or wearable will be fully functioning: either because they have a disability or they are simply engaged elsewhere. Gian Wild talks about the things that are essential to avoid when designing mobile apps, devices and wearables to ensure that everyone can use them.
Managing Drupal Teams in Government

Managing Drupal Teams in Government

This talk is about Drupal Team in Government with Abigail Bowman and Laura Larrimor.
Better Government Websites with Components

Better Government Websites with Components

This presentation explores Component-based Development as a transformative approach for Drupal web development. It discusses breaking webpages into reusable components, akin to Lego bricks, to enhance scalability and maintainability
Modernizing to Drupal: Lessons from Porting an Old Website

Modernizing to Drupal: Lessons from Porting an Old Website

The goal of this presentation will be to help government agencies using non-CMS powered websites and why they should port to websites to Drupal given our own experience.
Rapid prototyping for the web using the US Web Design System

Rapid prototyping for the web using the US Web Design System

As part of the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience, government agencies are required to modernize their websites using the U.S. Web Design System (#USWDS) to improve the public’s customer experience.
Structured Content & Flexible Layouts Georgia.gov Case Study

Structured Content & Flexible Layouts Georgia.gov Case Study

Lullabot helped Georgia.gov develop a new landing page design tool that gave state agencies the power to customize their home pages, landing pages, and programs without breaking the mobile-friendly responsive design. Even with this flexibility, the structured content model made it possible to keep critical information up-to-date across websites and automatically expose rich metadata for search engines.
The future of the U.S. Web Design System

The future of the U.S. Web Design System

The U.S. Web Design System's been around for six years. As USWDS grows beyond 2.0, there's an opportunity to make subsequent versions even easier to integrate and upgrade. Drupal powers much of the government web, and this session will be an opportunity to discuss the potential, pain, and possibility of using USWDS with Drupal projects - particularly as both your projects and the design system mature.
Improving UX with an interactive decision tree

Improving UX with an interactive decision tree

This session will present an innovative way to guide the visitor to the right part of the site by using an interactive decision tree. Users are guided through a series of steps to get them to the answer they are looking for.
Why Drupal accelerates digital transformation in the Western Australian Public Service

Why Drupal accelerates digital transformation in the Western Australian Public Service

Drupal powers the WA.gov.au platform. It has proven its worth in both setting whole-of-government standards in branding, usability, accessibility as well as reducing agency costs across the sector. It is the platform the WA Government has used to communicate with Western Australians during the COVID-19 pandemic as it has the flexibility, agility, and scalability to meet the ever-changing requirements of the state's response to the virus.
Content Planning & UX Panel

Content Planning & UX Panel

Exploring the overlaps between UX and content: content and UX are often treated as separate disciplines. We’ll discuss how content contributes to UX, and the tools and practices needed to deliver a more complete solution.
Helping immunisation professionals deliver good clinical care with GovCMS

Helping immunisation professionals deliver good clinical care with GovCMS

This talk/presentation will focus on the approach, methodology, principles, and frameworks leveraged by the team to deliver sustainable user centered solutions; which are built with whole-of-Government technologies, platforms and standards; that are aligned with whole-of-Health enterprise strategies. The talk/presentation will also touch on the technical solution, and its most integral component, the web CMS built with Drupal/GovCMS.
The UX of Content Guidance

The UX of Content Guidance

When organisations set out to improve their content, they often start with a writing style guide: a document that sets out the rules in detail. But is that even the best approach for our users - the people in our organisation who are creating and maintaining content? Is a guidance document the best approach for driving the behaviour change we seek?
Drag & Drop Content Management For Government Websites

Drag & Drop Content Management For Government Websites

By combining design systems with Layout Builder and Drupal features such as blocks we can deliver a "Wix" like drag and drop experience to site builders tasked with managing Drupal 8/9 websites.
Development tips for GovCMS SaaS

Development tips for GovCMS SaaS

This talk looks at development tips for GovCMS SaaS.
Readability Audits of Government Websites

Katherine Spivey on Readability Audits of Government Websites

Readability audits and formulas and how they work—and don’t work—to improve web content and the users’ experience.
Single Digital Presence- Inside the Victorian Government's Drupal 8 Platform

Single Digital Presence: Inside the Victorian Government's Drupal 8 Platform

Using a UX led approach to features, content and design, the Single Digital Presence project is improving the way citizens interact with the Victorian Government online. This talk will showcase the current SDP websites and briefly discuss the technology that underpins them.
Put the U.S. Web Design Standards to work in your next Drupal project

Put the U.S. Web Design Standards to work in your next Drupal project

The U.S. Web Design Standards are a library of design guidelines and code to help government developers and designers quickly create trustworthy, accessible, and consistent digital government services -- and as of this summer, it has a Drupal theme! This session will include a whirlwind tour of the Web Design Standards , some extolling of its virtues, and a demo of the USWDS theme for Drupal 7 and Drupal 8.

Government as a Service - architecting govCMs in Australia - presentation

The Australian Federal Government has taken the revolutionary step of standardising on Drupal in public cloud. govCMS is a 'Whole of Government' solution that any federal or state level agency can join, leveraging the infrastructure, knowledge and experience of the collective government.
Government Wide Pattern Library & Drupal

Government Wide Pattern Library & Drupal

This talk looks at the Government-Wide Pattern Library in Drupal