What’s new
Here you can find the latest news and information about the U.S. Web Design System. Read our latest release notes, learn about the Design System’s impact in the government, and learn how we conduct user research to continuously improve our product and process.
Latest blog posts
You can read more about the Design System in our News and updates, where we cover the latest development releases as well as interviews with the teams from across government who have successfully implemented the Design System at their agencies. You can read some older posts on the 18F Blog.
Design System in the wild
Interested in seeing who else is using the U.S. Web Design System? We maintain a list of sites in our GitHub repo. Feel free to open an issue or email us if you’d like to add your project to our list.
Web analytics for sites that use the Design System
By accessing the Google Analytics data gathered for analytics.usa.gov, we have aggregated a few data points to approximate how many users of federal websites have “experienced” the U.S. Web Design System. We will update these numbers quarterly.
| Quarter | New users | Total users | Page views |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Q4 | 106,692,196 | 127,352,539 | 910,248,106 |
| 2018 Q3 | 102,485,778 | 119,551,595 | 993,549,293 |
| 2018 Q2 | 120,740,833 | 145,898,928 | 1,130,185,798 |
| 2018 Q1 | 155,236,343 | 179,302,652 | 1,419,111,880 |
| 2017 Q4 | 103,791,268 | 118,741,947 | 898,464,360 |
| 2017 Q3 | 104,832,964 | 119,852,247 | 936,634,004 |
| 2017 Q2 | 121,514,979 | 141,816,265 | 1,001,166,834 |
| 2017 Q1 | 59,951,812 | 68,868,781 | 424,001,431 |
| 2016 Q4 | 54,646,374 | 62,220,498 | 478,526,298 |
| 2016 Q3 | 52,870,578 | 59,841,967 | 487,462,513 |
| 2016 Q2 | 53,006,353 | 60,214,372 | 391,914,815 |