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Government agencies love making standards. It provides busy work for the many interns and gives the desk workers a sense of joie de vivre because they're "makin
by deltarholamda 5y ago
Government agencies love making standards. It provides busy work for the many interns and gives the desk workers a sense of joie de vivre because they're "making a difference."
I really love the landing page. Has any landing page ever been useful at all to the end user? It's always a top priority, but on pretty much every site I've ever used it's never seen or used. Often I'll scroll all the way down just so I can get to the bottom page links that I'm actually looking for.
I wonder why this is so difficult. Everybody has seen Google's landing page. Function over form. It's really weird that "design meetings" have completely eliminated usability on the damned home page.
- ProfessorLayton 5y ago>Everybody has seen Google's landing page. Function over form. My favorite thing about google's home page is having their elaborate doodles load just as I'm about to tap on the search box, leading me to an unintended search. Function over form at its finest. I've resorted to bookmarking an empty search results page.
- haltcase 5y agoI know everyone has their own workflow, but I'm still surprised anyone actually goes to Google's home page anymore what with their search bar being accessible from practically anywhere (browser address bar for example). I don't remember the last time I actually went to the Google home page. What leads you there these days?
- ProfessorLayton 5y agoMy default address bar search is DDG, but need to fallback to google at times, and I keep my iPhone relatively google-free (Other than google voice).
- stevenhuang 5y agoUse !g at start or end of your query to query google https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang
- brimble 5y agoOr, indeed, anywhere in your query. "test !g query" will search Google for "test query".
- jrochkind1 5y agoHaving seen how bad government websites can be, the design area specifically included (including accessibility concerns) -- I do not consider providing a well-designed useable design system to government to be busy-work. At least not if it actually gets uptake. This one is high-quality enough that if it was done by many interns, those are some really good interns.
- wallfacer120 5y agoUm yeah, but it's the government doing it so it's really important that we all react with scorn and derision, because we're all such bold iconoclasts you see.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoOr they wedge it all into a hamburger menu because "we prioritize mobile". Fine, but how hard would it be to expand the options for a laptop?