Maya is a designer and front-end developer at 18F, a digital services team within the federal government. She is passionate about making the world a better place, and likes technology, art, and design.
Editor’s Note
:
We’ve been closely working with Maya on this article, and we’re happy to see the final result now being published on 18F. We highly encourage more teams to share the lessons they learned when building
design systems
or
pattern libraries
, and we’re always happy to support them in writing, editing and shaping that article. This post is a re-post of Maya’s final article.
Today, there are nearly 30,000 U.S. federal websites with almost no consistency between them. Between the hundreds of thousands of government employees working in technology, there’s nothing in common with how these websites are built or maintained.
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