Vulnerability and Accessibility

By GIC on June 11th, 2025

Vulnerability is the willingness to step outside your comfort zone and reveal things about yourself in hopes of inspiring a beneficial response. We’ve written this blog with that same mindset that guides the new Lighthouse design system: the belief that developing in an open-source environment fosters greater collaboration and leads to a stronger final product. […]

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A Call for Feedback Partners!

By GIC on April 23rd, 2025

We’d like to take a moment to renew our call for Lighthouse feedback partners! Lighthouse is now fully available to explore, and we invite developers and agency web editors to dig their hands into the sand and begin to envision their own new Lighthouse websites. This effort is about building a community to provide criticism, […]

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Conducting Your Own Competitive Analysis

By GIC on April 15th, 2025

The idea of redesigning an existing website can be daunting. It’s hard to know where to begin. Fortunately, the GIC is here to help Delaware agencies through the process of migrating to the new Lighthouse design system. Lighthouse takes care of a lot of design decisions, because its components have already been built with usability […]

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Mid-August Lighthouse Dev Updates

By GIC on August 15th, 2024

The GIC team is hard at work, building our new Lighthouse design system. Every couple of weeks we’ll be checking in with a brief update on some of the more interesting aspects of our development efforts. Here’s what we’re working on now! Our web team has been building new components for Lighthouse, including: Let’s dig […]

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Data Informed Design

By kristintolentino on July 02nd, 2024

We’ve all experienced the frustration of navigating through a government website, desperately trying to locate the right link or form amidst a sea of information. Whether it’s fulfilling our civic duties, filing documents, or simply seeking new resources, the process can often feel like an uphill battle—overwhelming, inefficient, and downright frustrating. If only there was […]

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