The U.S. Web Design System team will share their exploration of Web Component-based design systems and best practices.
Open Source
Tools and Services
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Resources.Data.gov
An online repository of policies, schema standards, tools, best practices, and case studies to provide agencies with resources for federal data management.
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Code.gov
A collection of federal source code including open source software.
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Data.gov
Data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications.
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U.S. Web Design System
A toolkit of principles, guidance, and code that helps agency digital teams build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites for the American public.
Join a Community of Practice
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U.S. Web Design System
A community for anyone building federal websites with the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) or considering it for a future project.
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Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Working to advance the cause of APIs in the federal government.
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OpenGov
The Interagency Open Government Community of Practice is where we talk about transparency, open-participation, and collaboration across agencies.
News and Events on Open Source
76 posts
18F practices in action (spoiler: this stuff works)
How well do 18F software development practices work? The 18F team reflected on a recent project for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) .gov registry to gauge the effectiveness of six recommendations aligned with what they actually did.— via 18F
Reconsidering the consent form: the least user-friendly aspect of UX research
The Open Data, Design, and Development (ODDD) team has replaced signed consent forms with a more accessible user research agreement process, offering multiple opt-in points. This ensures informed consent and participant autonomy. Explore why and how the ODDD team implemented this comprehensive participant consent process in their user research.— via Office of Natural Resources Revenue
Who is controlling your control system?
Best practices for security administration of control systems and their components. Specific guidance and lessons learned from a federal information system manager.
Communicators
Supporting inclusive language through automation
Join us as we learn about our Inclusion Bot and how it helps to create an inclusive culture in the workplace.
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2023
18F Checks in With the Dawson Project at the U.S. Tax Court
In December 2020, the United States Tax Court introduced DAWSON, a modern open-source case management system developed with assistance from an industry partner and 18F. DAWSON streamlined Court operations and changed the way the public interacts with the Court.— via 18F
Making sense: Cognition, perception, and design
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2023
Join us as we take a deep dive into USWDS design tokens. We’ll cover: what they are, how they’re used, and how you can adapt them to your branding needs.
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2023
Join the Design System team as we tackle your most commonly-asked questions.
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2023
A look back at what took place in the Design System in 2022.
2022
The 18F Engineering Sandwich for Cloud-based Web Apps
The 18F Engineering Sandwich for Cloud-based Web Apps—18F Engineering is often thought of as a technology shop, but that’s too broad. There are very few technology choices we actually make at the project level, so, more often than not, we combine a limited set of technologies to make our applications. To explain this, we’ll use the metaphor of a sandwich shop.— via 18F
Help Us Improve Digital Forms
Help Us Improve Digital Forms—People in the U.S. spend over 10 billion hours each year completing government forms. The Office of Evaluation Sciences is working to reduce this burden and make digital forms easier and more accessible. You can help by filling out a short typical form. It will take less than five minutes!— via General Services Administration
New resources for developers who are new to USWDS.
2022
User Experience
Open-source Information Architecture Design: Using the Tools You Have To Conduct Card Sorting and Tree Testing
Learn how we used GitHub to conduct a card sort and tree testing to improve the information architecture for onrr.gov.
Get started with the design system and a how-to demo of template creation and a prototyping approach.
2021
USWDS
Webinar Recap: U.S. Web Design System October 2021 Monthly Call
In this recap of the October 2021 U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) Monthly Call, the USWDS team shares how their community can help teams solve problems together, and what tools and channels we can use to ask questions, get answers, and provide useful feedback.
This month’s topic: Community, Connection & Contribution. How can our community help teams solve problems together?
2021
Acquisition
Discovery BPA Evaluation Process: How to Operationalize this Practice
This guide provides acquisition professionals the steps and resources needed to operationalize the evaluation process developed for the Discovery BPA.
This summit brings together the federal community to share success stories and best practices for utilizing federal source code and open source software, and examine the implementation of the Federal Source Code policy.
2020
Program managers, IT acquisitions leads, and business-minded IT professionals will receive in-depth guidance to improve cloud efficiency, optimization, and effective cost controls.
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2020
