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Re: Claim for a missing tooth

#61

This is very cool. My daughter was very worried that she might lose her tooth and swallow it, so I told her that the sewer mermaids have an agreement with the tooth fairy, and they'd deliver the tooth to her, and then she would deliver the money. My child didn't buy it, but maybe ya'll's will be more believing :p

I just went through the claim process and it explains that the sewer rats will be notified if you swallowed a tooth

Re: Claim for a missing tooth

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post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay, calm down, let's take this slowly. First things first: do you already own a spacesuit?

Yes! They were on special offer in the centre isle of our local Lidl last week. Between the angle grinder and trombone section.

Thank you for making my day just a little bit better. Excuse me while i clean my desk before the coffee stains ruin it. :)

Re: Claim for a missing tooth

#63

Really glad everyone's enjoying this! If anyone does use it with their kids: a) There's a sneaky secret admin page linked at the bottom ('Change settings') where you can set a price-per-tooth and add a custom question for them to answer: https://tf230.matteason.co.uk/admin b) Please send me a copy of their answers, I'd love to see their drawings! There's a download link on the confirmation page and you can email me a…

This is very nice! Is it open sourced by any chance? Most kids in the world don't speak English, and it would be nice to be able to contribute translations.

In any case, nice job and thanks for sharing!

Re: Claim for a missing tooth

#64

Really glad everyone's enjoying this! If anyone does use it with their kids: a) There's a sneaky secret admin page linked at the bottom ('Change settings') where you can set a price-per-tooth and add a custom question for them to answer: https://tf230.matteason.co.uk/admin b) Please send me a copy of their answers, I'd love to see their drawings! There's a download link on the confirmation page and you can email me a…

This is very nice! Is it open sourced by any chance? Most kids in the world don't speak English, and it would be nice to be able to contribute translations. In any case, nice job and thanks for sharing!

Yep! https://github.com/matteason/tooth-reimbursement-service

Localisation is a great idea, I've created an issue: https://github.com/matteason/tooth-reimbursement-service/iss...

Re: Claim for a missing tooth

#65

I love how closely this matches how GDS built flows work, not just the visuals. The careful step by step pacing, the direct wording, it's all absolutely spot on. Perfect.

Thank you! I design GOV.UK (and GOV.UK-adjacent) services at work so this was a bit of a busman's holiday

Aha, I did wonder. The language was just so spot on.

Keep up the excellent work.

Re: Claim for a missing tooth

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post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes! They were on special offer in the centre isle of our local Lidl last week. Between the angle grinder and trombone section.

Thank you for making my day just a little bit better. Excuse me while i clean my desk before the coffee stains ruin it. :)

This comment has brough me much joy! ...and, er, sorry about your desk. :D

Re: Claim for a missing tooth

#67

Really glad everyone's enjoying this! If anyone does use it with their kids: a) There's a sneaky secret admin page linked at the bottom ('Change settings') where you can set a price-per-tooth and add a custom question for them to answer: https://tf230.matteason.co.uk/admin b) Please send me a copy of their answers, I'd love to see their drawings! There's a download link on the confirmation page and you can email me a…

Is citizenship required for submitting a claim, as the instructions imply?

Also, the tooth chart is an adult chart (32 teeth), not a child chart (24 teeth).

Re: Claim for a missing tooth

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Neat idea! This brings back an embarrassing memory from childhood. Playing football in the yard, a careless neighborhood kid accidentally knocked two of my baby teeth out. I remember scouring the grass for them to no avail, then getting in a rage about how I wouldn't get tooth fairy money, so punched the boy, and he started crying and ran home. I don't even remember who it was, but to this day feel bad about that. Wh…

I don't know why you'd think that a fairy, with the power to fetch teeth from under your pillow and deposit payment undetected, and the power to monitor for for written letters that don't even emit denta particles to scan for, would lack a fraud unit.

Re: Claim for a missing tooth

#69

Is it bad that I was immediately jarred by the fact it doesn't use Transport Sans? Of course that is actually correct according to the GDS rules, because it's not on a service.gov.uk subdomain. [1] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/styles/typeface/

Does the UK government have any enforce power to dissuade unofficial use?

Re: Claim for a missing tooth

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post #69

Is it bad that I was immediately jarred by the fact it doesn't use Transport Sans? Of course that is actually correct according to the GDS rules, because it's not on a service.gov.uk subdomain. [1] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/styles/typeface/

Does the UK government have any enforce power to dissuade unofficial use?

It's as much a licensing issue as anything I think. GOV.UK uses 'GDS Transport', which is a custom cut of New Transport, a commercially-available font [0] which is available for the low, low price of £10k per weight for unlimited impressions. I've never seen any enforcement though (doesn't mean it doesn't happen) and it's pretty common for services not on *.service.gov.uk to end up using it anyway

[0] http://www.newtransport.co.uk/

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