Today, Code for Miami, a Code for America brigade, was announced as a Knight Cities Challenge winner for their Miami Civic User Testing Group. The goal of the Miami Civic User Testing Group is “Ensuring that people building local government technology use real-world feedback…
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CUTGroup Collective & The Opportunity Project
Smart Chicago will be partnering with CUTGroup Collective members to help build CUTGroups in other cities and then conduct UX testing on websites and tools that use data that is part of the White House’s Opportunity Project initiative. “The Opportunity Project expands access to opportunity…
San Francisco’s Public Voice Project & the CUTGroup Collective
The City & County of San Francisco recently submitted a proposal in the Knight News Challenge: How might libraries serve 21st century information needs? for The Public Voice: City Service Design Center. The goal is to “make San Francisco Public Library a forum for…
CUTGroup #21 – Digital Skills
For our twenty-first Civic User Testing Group (CUTGroup) session, we conducted focus groups to have conversations with residents about their access to digital skills trainings and resources. We wanted to see if residents know about the the resources in their own neighborhood and how they…
Why we don’t collect demographic data in the CUTGroup
I’m often asked about the demographic makeup of our CUTGroup testers, specifically around age, income, and race. The fact is we never collect demographic information when testers sign up, and the reason is because it’s just not that important. In…
The Launch of the CUTGroup Collective
Today, three years after we started the CUTGroup, we are announcing a new initiative called the CUTGroup Collective where we will convene organizations who are interested in our CUTGroup model to connect with each other, share information, and collaborate to improve what we…
