⚠️ This guide has moved to the consolidated 18F guides repository.
18F user experience (UX) designers join cross-functional teams to collaboratively improve user experiences across government. This guide is here to help us get the job done. It’s neither a step-by-step tutorial nor a set of rules. Instead, it’s a starting point for 18F-led UX design: doing it, discussing it, and ensuring it’s done to a consistent level of quality. This guide is iterative and you can review our goals, contribute or get a general overview below.
The UX Guide uses USWDS-Jekyll.
To build locally using Docker (recommended):
docker-compose up --build
Or, build locally without Docker:
bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve
This guide was collaboratively authored by members of 18F’s UX team past and present. While the initial content was pulled together over a few months, the guide builds on institutional knowledge from across 18F over the years. The following are the original members of the UX guide working group: