BC Personalized Digital Service was a service design project to research how personalized digital service defines inside B.C province. I led user research, synthesized methods research findings, strategy and prototypes for the Personalized Digital Service (GDX) team in Victoria.
BACKGROUND
Our tem (KB&A) began the project working on Personalized Government Digital Services. The team’s first insights began by following the industry-wide shifts in Interaction Design from design for visual perceptions (graphic design) to design for user experiences (UX) in various international governments.
MY ROLE
I was hired by Katherine Benjamin, and Professor Eugenia Bertulis as a sole service / UX UI designer in the team. I led user research session related to BC Online, Court Technology and innovation team, Small Business BC, BC Transplant, and BC citizens. As working with Katherine Benjamin, a scrum master, I was exposed by agile work environment by participating in weekly check- in calls, JIRA tickets, and sprint planning. This government project gave me first-hand experience working on innovation in BC digital government.
INTERNATIONAL PRECEDENT RESEARCH
Our team (KB&A) began the project working on Personalized Government Digital Services. The team’s first insights began by following the industry-wide shifts in Interaction Design from design for visual perceptions (graphic design) to design for user experiences (UX) in various international governments.
IDENTITY & TRUST
Issues around designing for trust and privacy issues is particularly important in government digital service design. Westin (1970) and Schmitt (2017) developed this schematic that illustrates a spectrum approach in privacy criteria, as well. The design insight here is to allow citizens to engage with government services anonymously or pseudonomously as appropriate.
Westin, A. (1970). Privacy and freedom. London: Bodley Head.
In this schematic developed by Schmitt, we see another configuration in current user engagement with digital services. Citizens today curate their internet presences. This human-centred design approach can be helpful in building trust with government services by allowing appropriate contextual design choices. For example, a parking ticket payment service might allow for payment without log-in.
States of Identity & Pseudonymity by Lutz Schmitt,
Extended by K.Benjamin, E.Bertulis, R.Kim
HIERARCHY OF DESIGN
For Personalized Government Digital Service
GOVERNMENT AS A PLATFORM
Government as a Platform (GaaP) is another precedent framework. GaaP is the idea that components, data, hosting, platforms, tools and other services ought to be built once, and used in a range of different combinations.
Government as a Platform challenges the notion that there should be “one single front door” to digital services, and instead proposes that their may be a multitude of doors, based on the user’s own preference.
CITIZEN INTERVIEW
One important principle of design research, especially generative human-centred research methods, is to have the designers and UX specialists listen for insights in the interviews and participatory research activities for insights,
PROTOTYPE
Developed a prototype to user test, to collaborate on the end to end user journey, and align various consideration around maximizing citizen engagement and experience.