Insights

This is a test

January 18, 2018

Details have emerged as to just how bad the bad design was that led to the false ballistic missile alert in Hawaii last weekend.

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What Jurassic Park can tell us about human resilience and human-centered design

December 21, 2017

The ways we engage with government websites and services reveals the resilience of people. We work to adapt to processes and make the technology work for our purposes even when they aren’t suited to us.

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Faith in the foundations: Lessons from DC history for compassionate design

December 15, 2017

In our work designing, building, and maintaining websites, we could take a lesson from the 19th Street Baptist Church, and the many other religious buildings throughout DC that have served as homes for multiple faiths over time.

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The truth about remote work

December 05, 2017

While the benefits of remote work are fairly self-explanatory (living where you like, being able to travel and work, etc), some candidates have concerns about whether or not remote work is right for them.

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Ideas for creating mobile applications for Veterans

October 25, 2017

Recently, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs released a Request for Information looking for ideas in how to create mobile applications for Veterans. Here’s a summary of our response.

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Ad Hoc at the ISM Conference

October 24, 2017

ISM is the largest health & human services technology event dedicated to improving the delivery of health and human services programs.

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Ad Hoc Retreat IV

October 19, 2017

Ad Hoc held its fourth all-company retreat in beautiful Leesburg, Virginia. This get together was a chance for all of us to make deeper connections between team members and the work we do.

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Stop your (business rules) engines!

October 10, 2017

One of the many surprising artifacts of the initial failed HealthCare.gov launch was a “business rules engine.” This was a new concept for most of the team that helped rescue the site.

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Guest lecture at the Rhode Island School of Design

October 06, 2017

Ad Hoc Creative Director Danny Chapman recently guest lectured at a Civic Design class at the Rhode Island School of Design.

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Accessibility: Start with the right tools

September 14, 2017

When people ask what I do for a living, I reply “Web accessibility designer.” I’m proud of that fact; I get the chance to make the web better every working day.

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Soapbox: DevOps with the Ad Hoc Infrastructure team

August 23, 2017

Soapbox is an open source software platform for building and deploying web applications using cloud providers like AWS. It represents our take on DevOps-done-right.

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R&D: BEAM clustering with AWS Auto Scaling

August 22, 2017

Something we pride ourselves on at Ad Hoc is our preference to own the operations and maintenance for the things we build.

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