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Even with a design system, you still need a designer

The U.S. Web Design System gives flexibility to teams to build the right solution for users, but there are still plenty of design decisions that teams need to make to be successful. In short, you’ll still need a designer.— via 18F

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Feb 13, 2020
UX

Deep Dive into the UX Field

There is a growing number of uses for user experience (UX) design, as well as a growing alphabet of UX-related careers; this series will offer some insight into the field by speaking with UX experts in government.

Feb 11, 2020
In this webinar, 10x project teams demonstrate their work to date and provide brief overviews of each project. Topics range from federating data to agile budgeting to machine learning, and our hope is that these talks will inspire others to submit ideas to 10x.
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2020

Search.gov: 2019 in Review

In 2019, Search.gov served 295,916,305 queries across more than 2,000 government websites. Find out more in their annual report, including the most common topics that people searched for.— via Search.gov

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Jan 27, 2020

Website standards

GSA officially released the ‘website standards’ referenced in Section 3(e) of 21st Century IDEA. The U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) is key to new website standards.— via General Services Administration

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Jan 23, 2020

Taking a Look at the USAGov Analytics Dashboard

The USA.gov’s team launched a new analytics dashboard that shows the top pages and topics that are trending on USA.gov and USA.gov/espanol. This gives agencies a better window into the information the public needs most so they can prioritize that information and make it more accessible to their users.— via USA.gov

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Jan 16, 2020

USWDS Maturity Model

The U.S. Web Design System released a maturity model to help you adopt the design system incrementally as you design and build better digital experiences for the American public— via U.S. Web Design System

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Dec 19, 2019