Nextgov/FCW reports that the People’s Design System, a Slack community of nearly 200 public- and private-sector technologists, is forming a governance committee to create a hard fork of the U.S. Web Design System, the GSA component library used across federal websites. The move follows a contested takeover of the USWDS GitHub repository by a DOGE alum and a Treasury AI engineer, the sidelining of longtime lead Anne Petersen, deleted comments, the addition of AI review tools such as CodeRabbit, and organizations pinning older versions they still trust; the group’s Open Government Design System repository already carries enhanced and new components.
Technologists organize a fork of the U.S. Web Design System
Nextgov/FCW reports that the People's Design System, a Slack community of nearly 200 public- and private-sector technologists, is forming a governance committee to create a hard fork of the U.S. Web Design System, the GSA component library used across federal websites. The move follows a contested takeover of the USWDS GitHub repository by a DOGE alum and a Treasury AI engineer, the sidelining of longtime lead Anne Petersen, deleted comments, the addition of AI review tools such as CodeRabbit, and organizations pinning older versions they still trust; the group's Open Government Design System repository already carries enhanced and new components.
Source: Nextgov