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October 1, 2014

18F open source hack series: Midas

By Sarah Allen

18F invites designers and developers from inside and outside of government to join us for a flurry of coding and sketching. Midas is an open source project in active development by 18F, Health & Human Services (HHS) IDEA Lab and the State Department. A small cross-agency team, dedicated to launching this product to empower passionate civil servants and aspiring diplomats all over the world.

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September 25, 2014

User-centered design at 18F: a design studio for natural resource revenues

By Chris Cairns , Michelle Hertzfeld , Nick Bristow

We recently kicked off a new project with the Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR). Three weeks into the project, we decided to hold a design studio to solve the problem of how to convey complex revenue data. We needed to better understand the difference between onshore revenue (revenue from natural resources extracted from land) and offshore revenue (revenue from resources extracted from Federal offshore or the U.S. outer continental shelf) as it relates to our system. What is a design studio, you ask...

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September 18, 2014

Getting to work for the American people

By Hillary Hartley , Aaron Snow , Greg Godbout

Over the last six months, 18F has embarked on a mission to transform the way the U.S. Government builds and buys digital services. We’re currently working with more than half a dozen agencies to help them deliver on their missions in a design-centric, agile, open, and data-driven way.

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September 15, 2014

Say hello to the new Presidential Innovation Fellows

By Garren Givens

The third class of Presidential Innovation Fellows was sworn into duty last week by former CTO Todd Park. We are excited to welcome them into the 18F family.

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September 8, 2014

The encasement strategy: on legacy systems and the importance of APIs

By Dr. Robert L. Read , Michelle Hertzfeld

In 1986 a nuclear reactor known as Chernobyl released harmful radioactivity which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe. The core of this reactor remains a glowing, ineradicable mass of deadly radioactive lava in the middle of a large Exclusion Zone unfit for human habitation.

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