How to use the Hub
The Innovation Hub collects resources made and found by the Office of Data and Innovation (ODI). We share them to help state departments better serve Californians.
Here are our recommendations for how to use each type of resource on the Hub.
Standards and principles
They’re the big ideas that guide ODI’s work. If you’re new to a topic, standards and principles are a good place to start.
Guides and playbooks
These offer details about how to implement a standard or best practice. They can include step-by-step instructions to achieve a goal. Use the guides and playbooks when doing work to achieve a great outcome.
Training
Our training gives you access to best practices in innovation. They’re a great way to improve your knowledge and skills so you can deliver better services.
Recommended reading
ODI is always researching how to deliver great services. We save our favorite articles and tools to reference them in our work. Our recommended reading is a good way to dive into a topic and expand your knowledge.
Templates
We often make templates to streamline our work. Take our templates and use them to make your work easier. Feel free to change them to fit your department.
Papers
We share the details about how we got things done in papers. If you want to learn exactly how we did something, read papers about our projects.
We’ve organized resources by topic. The topics on the Hub are:
- Human-centered design
- Content design
- Data
- Product management
Select a topic from the navigation at the top of the page or find all resources on the homepage.
About ODI
ODI is transforming government processes and public services to work better for Californians. We use data, human-centered design and technology to create services that are easier for everyone to use. We are a government-to-government service. Our goal is for the citizens of our community to benefit from our collaborations.