[aynsof]

We had a similar thing in Australia - the Australian Government Design System: https://designsystem.gov.au/

It is in use across a huge number of Australian government websites - the Australian Cyber Security Centre, Services Australia, Department of Health, Department of Veterans' Affairs to name just a few.

The agency that owned it had a huge amount of funding cut from its budget, and now it's being supported by an (admirable!) open source effort: https://designsystemau.org/

It's wonderful that there is this level of community support, but so disappointing that the government couldn't recognise the importance and usefulness of continued funding.

[tallytarik]

> The Australian Government Design System has been decommissioned and will be taken down on 30th Sep 2021.

Much like everything else that came out of that agency, it was released and then promptly abandoned.

The goal at various points was something gov.uk-like, but I think we failed pretty miserably on all counts.

[jfoster]

Feels really wasteful that Australia would try to come up with the same thing rather than just using the UK one, if that's essentially the goal anyway.

https://design-system.service.gov.uk/

It's even published under this liberal license:

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-lice...