Don’t Let Bad UX Kill Your Open Data – Part 2

by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television. You can see my presentation on this topic at the UXDC 2015 conference. This is Part Two in a series that identifies opportunities for improving the experience when working with open data. In Part One we established that there are at least two primary opportunities. In this … Continue reading Don’t Let Bad UX Kill Your Open Data – Part 2

Don’t Let Bad UX Kill Your Open Data – Part 1

by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television.  You can see my presentation on this topic at the UXDC 2015 conference. Not much has been written about the user experience (UX) of working with open data.  This is troublesome for those of use who work with open data everyday; we either provide a sub-optimal experience for our data customers or we suffer … Continue reading Don’t Let Bad UX Kill Your Open Data – Part 1

Trade Data to help U.S. Companies Export

by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television.  I originally ghost-wrote this article on the Hack for Change Web site on June 5, 2015. The National Day of Civic Hacking is not just an event, it’s a mindset that the International Trade Administration (ITA) fully supports. We too follow open data principles by making trade data easily available for … Continue reading Trade Data to help U.S. Companies Export