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The Human-Centered Design Center of Excellence works closely with CCSQ and ISG to guide, support, and foster the adoption and maturation of human-centered design practices. To achieve this, they empower CMS stakeholders to innovate by providing consumer-first research and design thinking strategies and solutions. The team offers training for everyone in the Center, both federal employees and contractor partners.

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Foundational Learning Path

Although the CCSQ Centers of Excellence offers a broad catalog of short and long-form trainings on lean, agile, and human-centered design topics of interest, CCSQ recommends taking the following core courses so that all employees and contractor-partners gain greater alignment by putting into practice the key principles of these philosophies:

  Agility Foundations (All CCSQ)

  Introduction to Human-Centered Design (All CCSQ)

  UX & Agile for Software Development (ISG Only) 

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The premise of Human-Centered Design is to seek to understand your customer. What does it look like to involve your customer throughout the process of creating products, services, and policies that impact them?

The HCD Center of Excellence provides training opportunities and resources to help you be more successful in your role supporting the mission of CMS.

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Training Catalog

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Video Shorts

Microlearning Videos

Watch short videos to learn about the methods used at each phase of the Human-Centered Design process as well as an introduction to design thinking.  

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Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience

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Service Design for Business

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Related Information

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The design system is a set of open source design and front-end development resources for creating Section 508 compliant, responsive, and consistent websites. It builds on the U.S. Web Design Standards and extends it to support additional CSS and React components, utility classes, and a grid framework to allow teams to quickly prototype and build accessible, responsive, production-ready websites.

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HCD Methods and Tools

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HCD Process

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HCD follows a series of well defined methods for analysis, design, and evaluation of hardware, software, and web interfaces. The HCD process is iterative, generally predictable, and repeatable. Research, design, and evaluation steps are built in from the first stage of each project, and they continue throughout to implementation.

Learn about the steps and methods used at each phase of the Human-Centered Design process. 

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A design system for the federal government
Design and build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly government websites backed by user research.

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