USWDS: The United States Web Design System
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USWDS: The United States Web Design System
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Re: USWDS: The United States Web Design System
#2The last gov team I was on had trouble with the uswds icon set. There didn't seem to be a way to import them as a font rather than as separate svgs. We noticed though that the icons were roughly based on Material Design icons, so we used the Material Design icon fonts instead and they were close enough. There were still a few icons that didn't map over, but we found some others within the new set that sufficed.
Re: USWDS: The United States Web Design System
#3The last gov team I was on had trouble with the uswds icon set. There didn't seem to be a way to import them as a font rather than as separate svgs. We noticed though that the icons were roughly based on Material Design icons, so we used the Material Design icon fonts instead and they were close enough. There were still a few icons that didn't map over, but we found some others within the new set that sufficed.
Icon fonts aren't accessible.
Re: USWDS: The United States Web Design System
#4The last gov team I was on had trouble with the uswds icon set. There didn't seem to be a way to import them as a font rather than as separate svgs. We noticed though that the icons were roughly based on Material Design icons, so we used the Material Design icon fonts instead and they were close enough. There were still a few icons that didn't map over, but we found some others within the new set that sufficed.
Fontforge has SVG import.
Re: USWDS: The United States Web Design System
#5Developers are an interesting bunch "Why does anyone use Bootstrap anymore?" and then goes and creates basically the exact same components again by hand.
Seems like that same trend repeats every couple of years "[Popular library] is now outdated, let me just create an in-house clone or move to identical but trendy [Popular library]."
To be clear I very much like the USWDS components, but they are mostly 1:1 with Bootstrap while being incompatible, and having to maintain them in-house. Just feels like NIH.
Am I missing something?
Re: USWDS: The United States Web Design System
#6Developers are an interesting bunch "Why does anyone use Bootstrap anymore?" and then goes and creates basically the exact same components again by hand. Seems like that same trend repeats every couple of years "[Popular library] is now outdated, let me just create an in-house clone or move to identical but trendy [Popular library]." To be clear I very much like the USWDS components, but they are mostly 1:1 with Boot…
Didn't you mean designers? In my experience, that's who loves pushing low-value efforts like this (yes, at the scale of the US government, Google etc it may be warranted). The real problem is you have too many designers on staff and they have found something to keep themselves busy.
Re: USWDS: The United States Web Design System
#7I haven't used them myself, but the GOV.UK components look and function great.
Re: USWDS: The United States Web Design System
#8Developers are an interesting bunch "Why does anyone use Bootstrap anymore?" and then goes and creates basically the exact same components again by hand. Seems like that same trend repeats every couple of years "[Popular library] is now outdated, let me just create an in-house clone or move to identical but trendy [Popular library]." To be clear I very much like the USWDS components, but they are mostly 1:1 with Boot…
I would find real peace of mind in a design system maintained by a government that guarantees compliance with that government's accessibility requirements.
Re: USWDS: The United States Web Design System
#9Developers are an interesting bunch "Why does anyone use Bootstrap anymore?" and then goes and creates basically the exact same components again by hand. Seems like that same trend repeats every couple of years "[Popular library] is now outdated, let me just create an in-house clone or move to identical but trendy [Popular library]." To be clear I very much like the USWDS components, but they are mostly 1:1 with Boot…
Didn't you mean designers? In my experience, that's who loves pushing low-value efforts like this (yes, at the scale of the US government, Google etc it may be warranted). The real problem is you have too many designers on staff and they have found something to keep themselves busy.
In my experience, PMs and middle managers drive a fair amount of unnecessary design work. Looks better in a PowerPoint than most things do, I reckon.
Re: USWDS: The United States Web Design System
#10I love the 'usa' in every classes !
You can't forget where you come from when you are putting 'usa-checkboxes' into 'usa-fieldsets' into 'usa-forms' !
At least it's shorter than 'america' !