Maya Benari long article describing design thoughts behind architecture for federal websites. Team unified a complex system with numerous rules to serve users from all corners of the country.
They focused on main pain point with nearly 30,000 U.S federal websites - inconsistent user experiences across government websites. Could they create a shared set of tools to provide consistent, effective, and easy-to-use government websites?
Author then describes how they went about:
- Selecting the team
- Building the system and bringing consistency across interactions
- Interface inventory and surfacing common colors and component styles
- Process od mood boarding
- Typography
We especially liked part about how they chose fonts that were free and open source to make it easy for government designers to use without additional burdens around licensing. (Often requirement with government financed projects)
Very interesting and in depth article with treasure of information. If you need redesign large systems this is definitely article worth of reading.
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