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'''<span style='color:#545454; font-size:150%'>The Open, Accessible Digital Workspace (OADW)?</span>'''

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The team will develop an integrated network of universally accessible digital services that enable government and partners to share information and work together to create a better future for the people we serve. This transition will make it easier for employees, teams, organizations and partners to work together and reach their goals by providing the best access to the people, data, information and tools they need to do their jobs with excellence.<br>

The team will develop an integrated network of universally accessible digital services that enable government and partners to share information and work together to create a better future for the people we serve. This transition will make it easier for employees, teams, organizations and partners to work together and reach their goals by providing the best access to the people, data, information and tools they need to do their jobs with excellence. Note that Project Meerkat is no longer the project name.<br>

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Redesigning a website is hard, and requires incredible attention to detail, which is why we need to test everything — even something as small as icons used on the site. Icon testing is done to make sure that when various icons are used on our webpages, users will understand what they mean, and what functions they might find if they click on the icon. This is important because users with different cultural and technological experiences may ascribe different meanings to different icons. This can cause trouble when attempting to convey a singular meaning through a simple image.

*Message is the GC's new instant-messaging platform, and it has gone international! Join the #Gov-as-a-platform conversation to chat live about the OADW and related projects (including your own - we want to hear from you).

*Shout out to Michael Karlin from Canada’s AI Team for testing Message with us. First impression? “It had all the functionality my team needed right away … it’s a really good messenger app. Awesome job, team!”

*In the last month, 3000 members joined GCcollab. Check out the user stats.  

*The DCD team is testing WeKan, an open source Kanban board application for project management. Learn more on our wiki. If you are testing project management tools, let us know in the #Gov_as_a_platform chat on Message.

*Our latest UX session was at the GC's Innovation Fair, testing out icons for the future workspace. Read about the UX team's experience and learn more about the team.

*We are looking for a new name! If you want to work with us on rebranding the open and accessible digital workspace (which is no longer called Project Meerkat), please contact Heather.Laird@tbs.sct-gc.ca or @hslaird.

'''<span style='color:#545454; font-size:150%'>Updates to the Open, Accessible Digital Workspace?</span>'''

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The team will develop an integrated network of universally accessible digital services that enable government and partners to share information and work together to create a better future for the people we serve. This transition will make it easier for employees, teams, organizations and partners to work together and reach their goals by providing the best access to the people, data, information and tools they need to do their jobs with excellence.<br></div>

Alongside the development team, we decided to look at three categories of icons, and chose six icons for people to choose from: a gear, a wrench, a hamburger menu, a waffle menu, a bell, and a flag. We displayed icons commonly used to represent settings, application selection and notifications — three important functions in any app suite

We selected a gear or a wrench for '''settings''', a hamburger menu or a waffle menu for '''application selection''', and a bell or a flag for '''notifications'''.

When it came time to test the icons at the Innovation Fair, we were the girls struggling to carry an easel up and down Slater Street. While we unfortunately were not able to complete our icon testing using virtual reality — an asset many other departments were equipped with — we still managed to have 32 participants run our minute-long icon test!

While we had our own assumptions of how icons would be classified and which icons would be best, we were surprised by the diversity of responses! Of course, when gathering thoughts and opinions there were no wrong answers, but over time a clear trend emerged. When asked which icon best represented the category we named, it was found that users most often chose the Gear, used to represent Settings, the Waffle Menu for Application Selection and finally the Bell which was chosen to represent Notifications.

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