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April 30, 2007

USA.gov site

I've been playing around with the redesigned USA.gov site (used to be FirstGov), and it really is better.  The search is good (wow, on a gov't site!), the design is a lot more professional, and things are organized in a rather logical fashion.  I wonder if they hired librarians!!!  Printing, e-mailing, and RSS feeds are a lot more prominent, which is nice.  Also, the most commonly used items are pushed to the front of the navigation through Quick Links in each category.  Take a look!

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The FirstGov folks have always been pretty clueful. Back in the day when I was evaluating database-search interfaces for accessibility, they were pretty much the only folks to get a top score.

I doubt they used librarians. Look at the average library website, and tell me librarians know how to organize information for the Web. They used information architects and/or interaction designers.

Posted by: Dorothea Salo | May 1, 2007

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