Trump's plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors
Beautiful mess
A year in, National Design Studio delays plan to update government web standards.
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President Donald Trump’s plan to “fill the digital potholes” and use AI to quickly redesign every government website isn’t going very well.
Last August, Trump created the National Design Studio, or NDS, by executive order. A temporary DOGE-like entity that answers only to the president, NDS was tasked with creating new standards to update the US Web Design System (USWDS) and overhaul 27,000 dot-gov websites in just three years. At the end of this so-called “America by Design” initiative, the government’s “design language” would supposedly be more usable and beautiful, Trump expected.
However, that monumental task—assigned to a small team under a short timeframe—was seemingly made harder by DOGE’s deep cuts to agencies previously responsible for improving government websites, including dismantling the 18F technology unitand restructuring...
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