The National Design Studio is a scam(chrbutler.com) |
The National Design Studio is a scam(chrbutler.com) |
Most/many government services use the standard design architecture and, although it is not perfect, it is several orders of magnitude better than I've seen elsewhere.
My only success has been internal reviews of wcag compliance and the threat of fines if found lacking.
But for non digital design its embarrassingly hard
Unless Craigslist owned the building they lived in, this is a ridiculous assertion.
They've edited a correction:
> They realized money could be made, and built a website to let other people do the same thing, through them, not Craig. Good on them, but renting a space is regulated differently than selling a used couch for many good reasons. What you could once attribute to the same quaint naivety of setting up a lemonade stand, you can no longer. The people who funded them knew better, and eventually, so did they.
> They realized money could be made, and built a website to let other people do the same thing, through them, not Craig[slist]. This is important: the very first act of creation was an act of piracy. What AirBnB does today is no different
America by Design Fail
This is important: the very first act of creation was an act of piracy.
Can we reserve words like “sickening” and “travesty” for things a little more serious than this? A war crime is a “sickening travesty”. This is, at worst, a pointless waste of resources.
Thankfully the tiger moms of SF stood up for their kids and got the grifters kicked out. Let's stand up to lowbrow idiotic articles like this one too.
The US will be paying for this for decades. For reference, in the Philippines, the effects of the Marcos regime still resonate some 50+ years later, and the changes imposed by it (and the corruption as a consequence of it) have solidified and have become normalized up to the present day. There is no going back.
2. Increasing the visibility of articles like this anywhere, but especially on HN, is unlikely to change anyone's mind. At this point, I don't think anyone is going to change their opinion about the current administration no matter what.
3. There are more effective ways to mobilize voters.
Edit: typo
America was worth something during Biden's days?
Does the author wish he thought of it first?
> The National Design Studio is a clear case of nepotism, and they're greatly overpromising. Dismantling 18F was a massive mistake.
There, I just said the same thing but cut out the personal attacks and the ridiculous take that Airbnb was somehow built by thieves (does anything actually believe this?).
I'm surprised this article has stayed up this long. Have the mods read it? It's low signal-to-noise ratio.
Personally, I find the Apple Store to be a pain in the ass. The online version makes me a clickaholic, and the IRL version is very confusing.
Government sites are very different.
I have no opinion on the new position. I don’t know the guy, and don’t use AirBnb. I just find that the insistence on making govt sites “like the Apple Store” to be weird.
In a local mall, we have an Apple Store on one end, and a Microsoft Store on the other.
Aesthetically, they are quite similar.
But the Apple Store is always packed, and the Microsoft Store is always empty.
[UPDATED TO ADD] As was pointed out, this was reflective of a long time ago. Microsoft closed all their stores a few years ago.
I had to check if I had opened an old thread. Microsoft closed all of its stores in Jun 2020.
s/have/had/g
My bad. Thanks for pointing that out.
I have zero faith that anyone who was okay with that should be in charge of anything for the public good.
Perhaps because more people associate Microsoft with software and Apple with hardware? Also there are way more stores selling Windows-based hardware equipment compared to Apple stores.
To get into the back of the line leading into the Apple Store which is ALWAYS packed.
Mistake to me implies unintended consequences that differ from the original goal. I've never heard anyone say "Opening Auschwitz was a massive mistake", as its consequences were exactly as intended. In the same way, dismantling 18F is not a mistake.
The problem is that if you don't use that dark pattern, you take a double digit revenue hit. So you revert to the dark pattern while shaking your fist at why the customers "just don't understand?"
https://web.archive.org/web/20250201222157/https://18f.gsa.g...
[1] https://18f.org