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The government’s role in open source

Posted by: Tim Gent, Posted on: 15 July 2016 - Categories: Development, Open source
Tim Gent delivering a speech about open source in government

...than software owned by an individual or a company (also known as proprietary software). Where we are today Today we use a lot of open source software in government projects....

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Make invitations to beta services better

Posted by: James Buller, Posted on: 8 July 2016 - Categories: Service design, User research
A research participant entering an invitation code on an iPad

If you are not careful you can antagonise users before they have even started testing your service.

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Tips on how to proofread your own content

Posted by: Nick Cowan, Posted on: 6 July 2016 - Categories: Content

...Print it out Reading comprehension is lower on screens than on paper. Printing out your content and reading it line by line will help you focus on finding mistakes. Wait...

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