Category: Design

Starting Fresh with Fewer Pages

When the Delaware Division of the Arts set out to update its website, the challenge wasn’t just strategic, it was the technical equivalent of cleaning out the attic before moving into a new house. With more than a decade of old content, hundreds of legacy pages, and only one person dedicated to the task, the […]

May 5, 2026

Important Update to the Public Meeting Calendar!

The GIC is excited to introduce a helpful new feature to the Public Meeting Calendar (PMC). This update is designed to make managing meeting documents faster, easier, and more accessible than ever before. Coming soon, the PMC will support text-only agendas and meeting minutes in addition to file uploads. Whether you are an agency web editor, admin, […]

April 16, 2026

A Love Letter to White Space

It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play. – Miles Davis Miles Davis was a champion of economy in music. French impressionist composer Claude Debussy said: “Music is the space between the notes.” For generations, musicians and artists have paid attention to that space. A study has even shown that musicians […]

April 15, 2026

GIC Accessibility Newsletter: Issue #9

ADA Digital Accessibility Deadline This Month One thing about time: It will sneak up on you. Here we are, less than a month from the ADA digital accessibility deadline. So what happens on that deadline day? Not necessarily anything. But that’s the date by which online material will be expected to be in compliance if […]

April 2, 2026

Check Out Our New Look!

Our very own GIC website has now been upgraded to the Lighthouse Design System! The goal: To eliminate as many hard-coded accessibility issues as possible while improving functionality and user experience, so we can focus on keeping our editable content accessible. Our small agency took on the same editorial challenge that our Lighthouse partner agencies […]

March 31, 2026

GIC Accessibility Newsletter: Issue #8

Zero Project Conference Begins Streaming Tomorrow The Zero Project was established with the goal of working for a world with zero barriers. Beginning tomorrow, Wednesday February 18th, more than 1,000 participants will attend the Zero Project Conference. The in-person conference at the United Nations Office at Vienna is an invitation-only event, but live and on-demand content will […]

March 3, 2026

GIC Accessibility Newsletter: Issue #7

Accessibility Updates on the Way for Current Common Look and Feel The GIC is responsible for creating the guidelines of our state website Common Look and Feel (CLF). Most of the agencies we work with are currently on CLF4, and all will eventually move to the new Lighthouse Design System. One of the biggest reasons […]

Coming Soon: New Improvements to CLF4

Here at the GIC we’ve been hard at work building new, fully accessible state agency websites on our new Lighthouse design system. But in the meantime, we are also working toward remediating any lingering issues that remain for our CLF4 partners. Previous updates include a switch to the State of Delaware teal blue heading background […]

January 28, 2026

2026 Best Practices: Social Media

Happy New Year! As we move into 2026, it’s a good time to renew our commitment to effective digital communication. As representatives of important government agencies, it’s our duty to pay attention to ALL our digital messaging. That includes the often-overlooked platform of social media. Here’s a quick breakdown of some civic tech social media […]

January 8, 2026

Working Toward Accessibility!

(To the tune of “(Walking in a) Winter Wonderland”!) Access calls, are you listening?Lighthouse designs, we’ll be christeningA beautiful site, we’re launching tonight,Working toward accessibility. The GIC is building pages,Our agencies will launch in stages.But there’s no need to wait, we can remediate‘Cause we’re working toward accessibility. You can add some alt text to a […]

December 22, 2025