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On the off chance you haven't seen it, GOV.UK design system is pretty good and accessible. Some institutions in my country (not UK) adopted it as well and I th
by yreg 3y ago
On the off chance you haven't seen it, GOV.UK design system is pretty good and accessible.
Some institutions in my country (not UK) adopted it as well and I think it was absolutely the right move. Although we don't need the Crown component.
- andrei_says_ 3y agoI'd say it's one of the best I've seen in the wild. The way it combines regality, clarity, the right tone (friendly but clear) and visual hierarchy is brilliant and masterful. Everything is well-thought out, accessible, clear, and communicating the right hierarchy, voice and tone.
- Nursie 3y agoTheir design is great. Ethics a little less so. They still make extensive use of google-analytics. I don't care how obfuscated google claim to make the data they receive, routinely leaking all online interactions between UK citizens and UK government to a private overseas company is just wrong.
- eru 3y agoGoogle is a public company, isn't it? Though I assume they are probably dealing with a subsidiary of Google that's officially headquartered in the UK. So it's not an overseas company.
- Nursie 3y agoPrivate sector, rather than public/state sector. I guess there's ambiguity in the terms here - It's publicly traded, sure, but it's not a government or state-owned entity. I'm not sure that assumption is particularly valid. The only response I've ever had from them on the issue was "our contract with google says it gets anonymised". This puts a lot of trust in Google not to use all the tasty data that is being sent, and they made no claims that the data remains in-country or under their control.
- eru 3y agoI'm probably just as skeptical of those pesky private-sector foreigners as you are. But I don't expectations of domestic government-controlled entities being any better. The UK government can pass laws and use contracts to legally safeguard the data, if they want to.
- Nursie 3y agoIt's not that I expect government to be better, but I wish it was, and I wish the technical and project people building these systems took this stuff more seriously.
- AdamN 3y agoI doubt it's an ethical choice. Some junior dev in the early days probably just put it in there and now the bureacratic lift required to undo it (and pay for a similar set of analytics instead of getting it subsidized by data harvesting) is just too much.