Appreciate Jared's post. I've been working in the US Government arena for some time and there is indeed a great deal of interest in making the government more transparent through the work of many talented individuals. The work going on now within OMB under Kshmendra Paul's leadership as Chief Enterprise Architect has recently led to VUE-IT, for example, which allows insight and drill down through the Federal Enterprise Architecture to specific IT investments. It's not ideal yet, but it goes a long way to making the complex simple.
Best regards, Hal Gill, CEA USAF SAF/XCTX Strategic Planning, CIO and Warfighting Integration www.fgm.com On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Jared Spool <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 25, 2009, at 5:06 PM, s wrote: > > It's always boggled my mind why the gov't doesn't put UX advocates >> (including designers, researchers, coders, QA) front and center in the >> design of citizen-technology interfaces. >> > > Actually, there are a lot of very talented designers and researchers > working in the US government, the Canadian government, and other governments > around the world. > > But just because those people are there doesn't stop other people from > creating crappy interfaces. Government doesn't have a corner on crappy > interfaces. They are a world-wide phenomena, spanning all industries and > sectors. > > Don't even get me started on voting. >> > > There are many people working really hard on this problem. It's a really > hard problem. If you want to help, I know a team that is looking for > volunteers. > > Does anyone have any experience/ evidence... HOPE?? to the contrary? >> > > In the last 10 years, there's become a real awareness of the importance of > good design in government systems. I have a lot of hope that we'll see real > improvements, especially with the youthful experience of the incoming US > administration. > > Jared > > Jared M. Spool > User Interface Engineering > 510 Turnpike St., Suite 102, North Andover, MA 01845 > e: [email protected] p: +1 978 327 5561 > http://uie.com Blog: http://uie.com/brainsparks Twitter: jmspool > UIE Web App Summit, 4/19-4/22: http://webappsummit.com > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
