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Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards

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Re: Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards

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Post by tptacek »

benaiah wrote: post #20
Animats wrote: post #10

OK, now that it's back up, let's take a look at the examples. There's a "register to vote" page, but that's trivial. Here's a more difficult one - a mockup of a Veterans Administration form.[1] This is clearly for use by a Government employee, not the public. (The first question one asks is, if an appeal is "certified", why does it also have to be "activated" by a human before anything happens? But that's the organiz…

> The "POA" heading is misaligned. You can tell they used table-less design - things don't line up right. Um, that's not the case. Those look like table tags, as they should be (it's a table). The only problem is that that column header is left-aligned, not right-aligned like the rows are. Most of your complaints are bullshit, frankly, and the rest are about interaction design/UX, not visual design, which is all that…

This would have been a great comment without the word "bullshit", which made the whole thing read needlessly venomous.

Re: Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards

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Post by gopowerranger »

tptacek wrote: post #21
benaiah wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The "POA" heading is misaligned. You can tell they used table-less design - things don't line up right. Um, that's not the case. Those look like table tags, as they should be (it's a table). The only problem is that that column header is left-aligned, not right-aligned like the rows are. Most of your complaints are bullshit, frankly, and the rest are about interaction design/UX, not visual design, which is all that…

This would have been a great comment without the word "bullshit", which made the whole thing read needlessly venomous.

Maybe he's calling a spade a spade but, if so, your comment is off base, too.

Re: Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards

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Post by Animats »

benaiah wrote: post #20
Animats wrote: post #10

OK, now that it's back up, let's take a look at the examples. There's a "register to vote" page, but that's trivial. Here's a more difficult one - a mockup of a Veterans Administration form.[1] This is clearly for use by a Government employee, not the public. (The first question one asks is, if an appeal is "certified", why does it also have to be "activated" by a human before anything happens? But that's the organiz…

> The "POA" heading is misaligned. You can tell they used table-less design - things don't line up right. Um, that's not the case. Those look like table tags, as they should be (it's a table). The only problem is that that column header is left-aligned, not right-aligned like the rows are. Most of your complaints are bullshit, frankly, and the rest are about interaction design/UX, not visual design, which is all that…

The misaligned comment head is over a blank space, and to the left of a column that doesn't have a head. So the "clean" web design results in a column head that's not associated with a column.

Interaction design is what it's all about. This page would work equally well with the browser's default fonts and colors.

Re: Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards

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Post by kin »

What a great step in the right direction. Every time I navigate through another government website in search of information, it is a different experience. I'm all for consistency and can't wait until this is well adopted in all the .gov's I find myself visiting.

Re: Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards

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Post by JorgeGT »

bsimpson wrote: post #4
JorgeGT wrote: post #2

That's a great initiative. Being from a country that changes the URLs of a bunch of ministries (and breaks half of them) each time a new government takes charge, I envy it! Now, for improved consistency, adopt the metric system.

Which country?

Good ol' Kingdom of Spain. Governments tend to rearrange ministries (fusing them, eliminating some and embedding their competences in another, or simply renaming them) and the URL changes accordingly, but most of the times links break, the styles of a former deleted ministry are different from the new host, etc.
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