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As one of our co-op students learned when she joined CDS as a content creator for social media, learning isn’t just for students and it’s a continuous process. Here are some easy steps she learned to make our Twitter content more accessible.

COVID-19 brought unexpected change to how people work. This was true for our design research team, who used this change as an opportunity to lay the groundwork for design research operations. One of our researchers reflects on this shift and what she …

To know if the COVID Alert service works well, we need to understand if it’s functioning as intended and if it’s having an impact on the pandemic. We can’t fully do that without data. This is why we’re introducing metrics (in a way that still …

Considering how different people will use your service can help you make it better for everyone, which is pretty rad. On the COVID Alert Portal, we recently released ‘recovery codes’ for healthcare workers, and learned some interesting things about …

After developing a first version of the service and improving the ways it meets people’s needs, we’d like to announce that GC Notify has officially moved from the Alpha to Beta phase, meaning its more stable, reliable and secure than ever before.

Government forms have a bad reputation due to the difficulty of distilling complex government processes into an easy to understand set of questions. Designing a form effectively means understanding the goals that it was created to serve. That’s why …