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Choosing New Fonts for Lighthouse

By GIC on September 19th, 2024

One of the GIC’s main goals is to put accessibility at the forefront of our process. We always want to keep in mind those with visual, hearing and other disabilities as we make each website design decision. This approach calls for reconsideration of colors, backgrounds, and the text itself that we use. Many different fonts […]

End of Summer Dev Updates

By GIC on September 06th, 2024

Hello again! The GIC team is engaged in an important internal debate, agonizing over a hotly-contested issue: Is it actually summer until September 22 as the calendar says, or do Labor Day and the start of school mark the real beginning of fall? Our team is split into devoted camps of those who are still […]

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 […]

Designing a New Header & Footer

By GIC on August 05th, 2024

Previous iterations of the Delaware State Common Look and Feel (CLF) provided a consistent header and footer for state agency websites to use, such as the ones on this webpage. Our new version of the CLF is called Lighthouse. Lighthouse represents a comprehensive design system that will unify even more elements of state websites. This […]

Introducing Lighthouse!

By Dana Rohrbough on July 08th, 2024

A New Vision For Delaware’s Common Look and Feel Guidelines We are excited to share a new vision for the State of Delaware’s digital experiences! It’s called Lighthouse, and it represents a comprehensive approach to the redesign of state agency websites. A quick reminder, the Government Information Center (GIC) was chartered in part to define […]

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 […]

What is User Research and Why Should it be a Part of Your Process?

By Burgundy James on July 02nd, 2024

In my role as a researcher, I often see projects begin by immediately developing a solution before truly understanding the problem, and whom we need to solve it for. User research can help define your target audience, and provide them with an outcome that meets their needs, with less focus on “checking off” a list […]

Introduction to Web Accessibility

By andrewstitt on July 02nd, 2024

Your agency’s website lets you serve Delawareans. It helps them find info about your services. You accomplish this goal by using good content management and design. They make the pages on your website usable by the people you serve. Web accessibility is a tool that improves your website’s usability. According to the World Wide Web […]

Welcome to our Blog!

By Dana Rohrbough on June 27th, 2024

Hello! Welcome to an important conversation that we at the Delaware Government Information Center (GIC) are excited to have with members of all our great Delaware state agencies about their digital presence. We’re hoping to connect state agencies to the GIC, and to one another through this blog. We want to engage agency leadership, PIOs, […]