This talk describes how user experience professional can aim their skills where they are desperately needed: at our interfaces to government. What would happen if we felt about government the way we feel about our iphones? Can we insist that interfaces to government can be simple, beautiful, and easy to use? Code for America is creating these simple, beautiful interfaces and showing what's possible; we want more UX practitioners to join the cause!

1. @pahlkadot
@codeforamerica

3. 2012 Fellows

4. 2012 Cities

6. January Institute: February: City March: April Onwards: October:
Training Residency Inception Sprinting Transition &
Reuse

7. efficiency
transparency
participation

12. I believe that interfaces
to government can be
simple, beautiful, and easy to use

16. efficiency
transparency
participation

18. government is
what we do
together

27. Society becomes how you behave.
- Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer

33. interfaces to government can be
simple, beautiful, and easy to use

34. 7 ways to hack the citizen experience

35. #1: workshop with CfA fellows
Thursday, 9 – 12:30

36. #2: codeforamerica.org/fellows

37. #3: civic startups

39. #4: mentor fellows and startups

40. #5: codeforamerica.org/cities

41. #6: brigade.codeforamerica.org