When 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 My original country uses a mishmash of Java applets, ajax-based websites, and a mixture of mildly broken, outdated web technologies, served from a variety of domains.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.
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#22I wish all websites were as good as GOV.UK's, they should be taught in schools, colleges and computer science / web courses as the gold standard in web design. No frills or silly scroll jacking animations plus javascript hogging contraptions that we see in almost all websites these days. This gives me hope.
> No frills or silly scroll jacking animations plus javascript hogging contraptions that we see in almost all websites these days.
Still the cookie warnings though :-( I've just visited on my phone the forms page linked in the title, and the first thing that greeted me was a full-screen page-blocking dialog with some cookie nonsense. You can't interact with the contents of the page until you decide how you feel about cookies.
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Here's Singapore's: https://www.designsystem.tech.gov.sg/
And the US: https://designsystem.digital.gov/
And Norway: https://www.designsystemet.no/
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#24Coming from Japan which is notorious for having the worst digital experience, the UK's gov.uk ecosystem is incredible
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#25Honestly, the people behind the scenes of gov uk are doing gods work. See nothing but great stuff coming out of there.
I fully agree. Two of my favourites: Holiday API I plug into every ecommerce site I work on: https://www.api.gov.uk/gds/bank-holidays/#bank-holidays Domain Email Security checker: https://emailsecuritycheck.service.ncsc.gov.uk/check Please share any other favourites!
I love that the bank holiday one tells you whether or not bunting is appropriate on that day. It looks like the ones for which it isn't are ones commemorating death, like the state funeral of Elizabeth II and Good Friday (Crucifixion of Jesus).
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I fully agree. Two of my favourites: Holiday API I plug into every ecommerce site I work on: https://www.api.gov.uk/gds/bank-holidays/#bank-holidays Domain Email Security checker: https://emailsecuritycheck.service.ncsc.gov.uk/check Please share any other favourites!
The fact that the UK government's bank holiday API has bunting advice just makes my day.
Where did you find this? Is it part of the API response?
Would be fun to use this for some digital decor at home.
Next bank holiday is Christmas so I've got some time to build something!
EDIT: Just found it in the JSON; shame, was hoping it would contain bunting patterns/colours.
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#27The GOV.UK Design System team [1] is really doing great work. Wish there would be more like this from other governments. [1] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/design-system-team/ Edit: Apparently there are a lot! Really nice to see.
> Wish there would be more like this from other governments. There is: Argentina - https://argob.github.io/poncho/ Australia - https://gold.designsystemau.org/ Canada - https://design.gccollab.ca/ Czech Republic - https://designsystem.gov.cz/#/ Estonia - https://brand.estonia.ee/?lang=en Flanders - https://www.vlaanderen.be/digitaal-vlaanderen/onze-oplossing... France - https://www.systeme-de-design.gouv.fr/ Germany…
Fedoriv work for Ukraine is unmatched!
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#28Honestly, the people behind the scenes of gov uk are doing gods work. See nothing but great stuff coming out of there.
100%. Well maybe 99%. The tax free childcare website is very frustrating.
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#29seems to be mostly open source too https://github.com/alphagov/forms/wiki
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#30I wish all websites were as good as GOV.UK's, they should be taught in schools, colleges and computer science / web courses as the gold standard in web design. No frills or silly scroll jacking animations plus javascript hogging contraptions that we see in almost all websites these days. This gives me hope.
> No frills or silly scroll jacking animations plus javascript hogging contraptions that we see in almost all websites these days. Still the cookie warnings though :-( I've just visited on my phone the forms page linked in the title, and the first thing that greeted me was a full-screen page-blocking dialog with some cookie nonsense. You can't interact with the contents of the page until you decide how you feel about…
It's a legal requirement