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Looks like they're focussed on recruitment (and not much else yet), so the site prioritises design over anything else.

Given how new it is [0], it might change rapidly as priorities change.

[0] Wayback machine first captured it on 25 Aug 2025: https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://ndstudio...

What a waste. America had world-class web design talent when 18F designed our federal pages, now America looks like a Sephora catalog.

Personally, I think it's fine for the NDS site itself to look design-focussed (or, like a Sephora catalog). I presume that slick, modern design won't be used on every government website.

Of the Australian government websites I've used, they seem to come in both extremes; some with incredibly poor UX/design, and others with some surprisingly great design. A similarly complex task on a bad site could take 60+ minutes, whereas on the well-designed site more like 5 minutes. Makes a big difference when trying to get things done.

All the glamour seems nice until you're in a country of continental expanse, with territories from the pacific islands to the caribbean, and with equal citizens living in areas with low-bandwidth internet access.

...so you have no basis of comparison for how American federal web resources used to look? That explains some things.

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