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Thought Leadership
Thought Leadership
design strategy
November 21, 2023
5 min read
Informing the Future: Government Forms of Today and Tomorrow
How the 2023 FormFest event inspired us to build better government, one form at a time.
Thought Leadership
App Design, Design Strategy, UX/UI, User Research, Website Design
September 10, 2023
8 min read
A Practical Guide to Building Accessible Forms on the Web
Exygy is still incorporating lessons and insights from Figma’s Config Conference. Check out some of our key takeaways!
Thought Leadership
App Design, Design Strategy, UX/UI, User Research, Website Design
September 10, 2023
6 min read
Make it accessible and inclusive, make it great!
Learn more about how Exygy is actively integrating the valuable lessons and insights gained from attending Figma's Config Conference.
Civic
Thought Leadership
August 22, 2023
4 min read
Innovation at the County Level: What I Learned at the 2023 NACo Conference
A case for open source software, inter-county communication, and multi-disciplinary teams following the NACo 2023 Conference.
Thought Leadership
Civic
May 10, 2023
4 min read
Design, Data, and Debunking the Myths of Reentry
The data collected with CROP's new platform allows us to better advocate for policies and tell better stories about how we engage with formerly justice-involved individuals.
Thought Leadership
Culture
May 8, 2023
4 min read
Exygy Leadership Changes - Introducing our New CEO, Eric Lam!
We are incredibly excited to announce a major milestone in Exygy’s history: as of May, Exygy is welcoming Eric Lam into the role of CEO at Exygy!
Thought Leadership
design strategy, website development, website design
May 2, 2023
8 min read
Inclusive Design in Action: How Design, Engineering, and Product Collaboration Can Enhance Website Accessibility For Everyone
Without collaboration, individual efforts may overlook important aspects of accessibility and may not fully address the needs of people using our products.
Thought Leadership
design strategy
March 8, 2023
13 min read
Demystifying Inclusive Design: Learnings on Designing Equitable and Accessible Products
Inclusive design consists of accessibility and equity. Exygy designers share their learnings from creating a design practice that centers inclusivity.
Thought Leadership
User Research, UX/UI, Website Design, Website Development
March 8, 2023
3 min read
Creating a Better Web Through Accessible Design Systems
When we embed Accessibility into Design Systems we can spread learnings faster across teams and consistently create accessible experiences for more and more people.
Thought Leadership
design strategy
December 12, 2022
5 min read
Leveraging Design Systems for Human-Centered Processes and Patterns: 4 Inspiring Talks from the 2022 Clarity Conference
Exygy designers share favorite quotes from a conference that socializes design systems' ability to shape accessible, collaborative, efficient, and scalable digital products.
Thought Leadership
November 29, 2022
3 min read
Exygy is Bidding Farewell to Twitter
Our Reasoning Behind Saying Goodbye. Follow us on Linkedin.
Civic
Thought Leadership
Design Strategy, Website Development, Website Design, User Research, UX/UI, Technical Audit
November 9, 2022
7 min read
The Accessibility Challenge: Creating A Web for Everyone
Exygy and our partners at Evolving Web share why we should all prioritize accessible design, experiences working accessible design principles into Drupal websites, and helpful action steps to get started with accessible designs
Thought Leadership
website development, website design
June 13, 2022
4 min read
3 Common Causes of Low Adoption Rates in Tech for Good Projects
With all the best intentions, a surprising number of tech for good projects fail to have great adoption, and there are often common threads amongst these failures.
Thought Leadership
website design
June 3, 2022
10 min read
Designing Accessible Websites for an Inclusive and Equitable Future
We are eager to share resources, learnings, and challenges we face as we work towards making all digital services accessible.
Thought Leadership
Culture
Philanthropy
May 3, 2022
4 min read
The Savior Complex and the Social Impact Space
How do we approach social impact organizations with our services while being mindful of the savior complex?
Civic
Thought Leadership
April 6, 2022
55 min read
Housing California Conference: The Checklist, Are Preferences Right for your Jurisdiction?
We virtually participated in the Housing California Conference 2022 to discuss the what, why, and how, with regard to housing preference policies.
Health
Thought Leadership
March 8, 2022
38 min read
State of Equity: Healthcare for our Safety Net
The first of our Health Equity Webinar series, where our panelists discuss the state of equity in our healthcare system.
Thought Leadership
February 28, 2022
3 min read
#PasstheMic: Meet Michelle Adekolu
Let's #PasstheMic to Michelle, Scrum Master at Fearless and the Searchable Museum project with the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Thought Leadership
February 15, 2022
3 min read
#PasstheMic: Meet Adorable Jasmine
As we continue to #PasstheMic we are excited to spotlight Adorable Jasmine, the Founder of Deeper Tones Collective.
Culture
Thought Leadership
Civic
February 14, 2022
3 min read
#PasstheMic: Meet Lapedra Tolson
As part of our efforts to #PasstheMic this Black History Month and beyond, we are excited to spotlight Lapedra Tolson, the founder and principal at Friends From the City.
Thought Leadership
design strategy, website development
November 29, 2021
10 min read
Evolving Traditional Product Metrics to Grow Positive Social Impact
Assessing a product’s impact is complicated. Here's how Exygy approaches creating product metrics to support meaningful social impact.
Thought Leadership
design strategy, website development
October 21, 2021
4 min read
Rewilding Technology: 3 Ways Tech Can Help Communities Thrive
What does it mean to "rewild" technology in the age of quick fixes?
Thought Leadership
Civic
user research, design strategy
June 8, 2021
4 min read
Lessons from Mapping the Affordable Housing Process with Participatory Methods
Journey mapping is a design tool used to better understand the overall process the user is experiencing while using a product.
Civic
Thought Leadership
May 18, 2021
How Might We Equitably Scale Affordable Housing Solutions?
Exygy and the Justice Collective discuss the role that equity plays in the affordable housing space at Good Tech Fest 2021.
Thought Leadership
May 18, 2021
5 min read
Leading the Future: Jasmine Burton
Meet our phenomenal guest, Jasmine Burton (who goes by “Jas”), a social impact designer and hybrid professional.
Thought Leadership
April 28, 2021
5 min read
Leading the Future: Kristy Drutman
Our fourth guest in our interview series is environmental media host Kristy Drutman, otherwise known as “Brown Girl Green.”
Thought Leadership
Culture
April 21, 2021
3 min read
Derek Chauvin’s Trial: Verdicts are not a substitute for policy change
The Black Lives Matter movement reminds us: “Justice would mean George Floyd would be here."
Thought Leadership
Culture
April 19, 2021
5 min read
Leading the Future: Linda Cheung
Linda Cheung is another changemaker who's moving the needle at the intersection of equity, social impact, and technology.
Thought Leadership
Civic
April 7, 2021
7 min read
Leading the Future: Cyd Harrell
This is the second of Exygy’s series Leading the Future: Her Point of View. Our phenomenal interview guest is Cyd Harrell.
Philanthropy
Thought Leadership
website development
April 6, 2021
3 min read
Open Source: Influencing the Future of Social Impact
When nonprofits can use open source tools and technology, it increases their ability to champion social good and be impactful.
Thought Leadership
March 31, 2021
4 min read
Leading the Future: Vanessa Mason
Our first installment of an ongoing series, called Leading the Future: Her Point of View, inspired by Women’s History Month.
Thought Leadership
Philanthropy
app design, design strategy, user research, ux/ui
March 19, 2021
5 min read
Service Design: 2 Easy Tools to Improve Your Organization
My favorite thing as a designer is collaborating with clients to answer big, messy questions.
Thought Leadership
March 8, 2021
4 min read
Racist Language in Software
Software as a field lacks diversity, but it wasn't until 2020 that folks confronted the embedded racism in software's code.
Health
Thought Leadership
February 12, 2021
5 min read
Why is an Equitable COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout So Hard?
The COVID-19 vaccine rollout is not a technical challenge — it’s a design and behavior one.
Thought Leadership
Culture
January 8, 2021
2 min read
White Supremacy Has No Place in Our Country
On January 6th, entitled, armed, privileged, nationalistic, white supremacists stormed and desecrated our legislative bodies.
Thought Leadership
Culture
August 6, 2020
4 min read
It is Time that Tech for Good Serves the Undocumented Community
As an undocumented teenager living in the pre-DACA era, I never thought I’d have the chance to do the work I get to do at Exygy.
Civic
Thought Leadership
July 22, 2020
6 min read
3 Steps for Shifting Government Services Online During COVID-19
Many cities are now faced with the decision to either pare back government services or shift their services online.
Thought Leadership
July 6, 2020
5 min read
8 Ways the Tech Community is Building Anti-Racist Products & What We Can Learn from Them
At Exygy, we are discussing the role that design, product, and technology should play in building a just society for all.
Thought Leadership
Culture
June 12, 2020
3 min read
We are Part of the Problem: 5 Decisions We’ve Made (so far) to be Anti-Racist
We are reflecting, and taking action to address ways we individually and collectively address the racist systems.
Thought Leadership
June 9, 2020
4 min read
In Solidarity and In Action
As an organization that focuses on building healthy and resilient communities, our work is inextricably tied to dismantling racism.
Civic
Thought Leadership
design strategy
May 7, 2020
5 min read
5 Ways Government is Tackling the COVID-19 Digital Divide
What happens when you don’t have access to the Internet during the pandemic?
Thought Leadership
April 24, 2020
5 min read
3 Ways the Tech Community is Adapting to Fight COVID-19
Much of the technology to slow the impact of COVID-19 already exists; we just have to adapt it.
Thought Leadership
design strategy
September 25, 2019
4 min read
3 Steps for Non-Designers to Give Great Visual Design Feedback
As projects enter the visual design stage, providing feedback to your design team is a critical step in what can be an overwhelming process.
Health
Thought Leadership
design strategy
September 13, 2019
5 min read
Designing for Health Equity
I believe we – as innovators, designers, community leaders, and residents – have a leading role in making health more equitable.
Civic
Thought Leadership
August 12, 2019
3 min read
How to Use the San Francisco Tier 3 Marketplace
Here’s what we’ve learned about how civic agencies and tech vendors can work together, leveraging the SF Tier 3 Marketplace.
Health
Thought Leadership
July 25, 2019
4 min read
The Collaboration We Need in Healthcare
Last month, I attended the Innovation Learning Network (ILN) InPerson Meetup. It reminded me of the potential for impact we have when we prioritize authentic relationships and focus on communities’ needs.
Thought Leadership
design strategy, website design, app design
July 19, 2019
6 min read
4 Tips to Make User Data Collection Delightful
How can organizations design user-centered and intuitive questionnaires, surveys, and forms?
Civic
Thought Leadership
organizational development
July 18, 2019
6 min read
6 Steps to Becoming a Learning Organization
In our ten-plus years of practicing Agile, we’ve learned a few things about how it functions within government – often the hard way.
Thought Leadership
organizational development
November 13, 2018
3 min read
Improving Organizational Capacity and Leadership through Agile Coaching
We’ve built a set of agile processes that work for your organization – empowering your team, and accelerating your pace of delivery.
Thought Leadership
design strategy, user research
October 15, 2018
4 min read
How We Use Design Sprints to Rapidly Prototype and Build Empathetic Products
How we use design sprints to create solutions that are user-centered and sustainable.
Thought Leadership
July 27, 2018
3 min read
Digital Craftsmanship for Healthy & Resilient Communities
What is digital craftsmanship?
Civic
Thought Leadership
June 25, 2018
5 min read
5 Tips to Modernize Your RFP Process
Top five tips for government agencies to craft Requests for Proposals (RFPs) that attract top-notch, innovative partners.
Thought Leadership
website development, website design
November 21, 2014
4 min read
5 Pre-Launch Steps to Ensure a Successful Website Launch
5 recommended steps to complete before trying to launch your website.
Thought Leadership
website development
October 1, 2014
1 min read
Exygy Makes List of Top WordPress Developers
Clutch recognizes Exygy for award-winning WebPress development.
Thought Leadership
website design, website development
July 11, 2014
4 min read
8 Ways to Reduce Your Website’s Bounce Rate
While you will never get your bounce rate to zero, there are plenty of ways to reevaluate your content and reduce bounce rate.
Thought Leadership
website design, website development
June 19, 2014
4 min read
6 Things You Should Do After Launching Your Website
You’ve just launched your new website. Now what?
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