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<div style="line-height: 1em; font-size: 200%; text-indent: 14%;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;"> The Open, Accessible Digital Workspace</div>
<div style="line-height: 1em; font-size: 200%; text-indent: 14%;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;"> The Open, Accessible Digital Workspace</div>
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'''<span style='color:#545454; font-size:125%'>Last week at the Innovation Fair</span>''', the Digital Collaboration Division team invited guests to take part in an icon testing experiment. The Digital Collaboration Division (GCTools team) is working on a redesign to make the different tasks (i.e. blogs, the Wire, GCcollab, the Wiki, profile) into one centralized application suite, and we want to make sure we get it right! To create the best tools possible for users across government, private industry, and academia, we will be conducting usability tests regularly. This was the first step!
'''<span style='color:#545454; font-size:150%'>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>
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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.
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.