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And the US: https://designsystem.digital.gov/
And Norway: https://www.designsystemet.no/
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#152This is basically a govt created turbo tax tool but for every govt form ever.. nice.
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Everyone uses Google Analytics. I don't find it particularly high up any list of real worries.
I don’t. I despise Google and what they became and so should you. Maybe my 10 visits a day webpage is an anomaly, and I’m truly the only one not using Google analytics - Still, don’t pretend Google analytics is used by everyone.
> I despise Google and what they became and so should you
It's a bit laughable to talk about despising a company over this stuff. We're not talking about an evil regime, or even Nestle for what they did with breast milk in Africa. It's so over the top.
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#154> We know this is not going to cover all routing needs though - in the future, we’d like to look at building branching (two separate sets of questions depending on the answer), and later down the line we might be able to expand our routing so you can add routes to more than one answer, and also routes based on a combination of answers.
I'm very interested how they build a UI for branching. Communicating branching conditions visually and clearly without just handing the user a programming language is a hard problem.
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#156When I moved to the UK, one of the surprising things was how well the GOV.UK ecosystem worked. My original country uses a mishmash of Java applets, ajax-based websites, and a mixture of mildly broken, outdated web technologies, served from a variety of domains. GOV.UK was a breath of fresh air with its simple, consistent UI, served as static HTML. This is how internet services should look like.
Hoorah to that! We are lucky to have wonderful .gov services; highly available, accessible, frictionless, simple, informative, well written and bullshit-free. Maybe the best online central government services in the world - though I hear Estonia are a contender too. However I live in perpetual fear that at any moment some corrupt minister will do a deal with Microsoft and the Devil. Out will go plain HTML and common…
Entirely off-topic, but why do some comments on HN have manual line breaks but most just soft-wrap? On my phone (Hacki app) each line is soft-wrapped, then hard-wrapped after 1 or 2 words, which looks quite off
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#157I have to admit, as a Spaniard that moved 7 years ago to the UK, that the government related sites are an absolute pleasure to work with. Taxes, information of any kind etc everything clear and straightforward. I take my hat off.
PS: Does anyone know the stack they use?
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#158I had to fill out a companies legal questionnaires and forms. The company had pinched the gov.uk format. It was such a relief to find a company using something familiar and well thought out instead of some fancy survey form or email.
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#159I have to admit, as a Spaniard that moved 7 years ago to the UK, that the government related sites are an absolute pleasure to work with. Taxes, information of any kind etc everything clear and straightforward. I take my hat off. PS: Does anyone know the stack they use?
Even the NHS website is so clean and accessible. I think every EU country should just adopt their format.
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#160Gov.uk is probably the greatest thing our government has achieved for quite a while.
That's not hyperbole.