Asparagus

20220516 #breakfastdiary 438, 13°C/clear, 11min/exercise In a hot pan, sear mini asparagus with olive oil, salt salt, pepper pepper. Mini asparagus is tender and mild enough that you don't even need to blanch it first. Top with a fried egg and Parmesan, Milanese-style #asparagus, grilled When public institutions build a website or app, they almost always outsource it to a specialist vendor. Once the vendor finishes, the department in charge simply checks whether every function listed in the spec was implemented — nobody checks whether it's actually usable, or whether the experience is a hassle. The UK does it differently. Under its Cabinet Office sits GDS (Government Digital Service), a dedicated body whose entire mission is maximizing usability for every user. The first of the UK government's ten design principles for digital services is ‘Start with needs’ — meaning: thoroughly understand what users actually need, then design the system around them. Kang Hyun-sook, Why Does the Gov24 App Only Rate 1.5 Stars? Public IT projects have roughly a million mandatory boxes to check beyond usability, so by the time anyone gets around to worrying about it, everyone's usually exhausted and battered. Even so, these days more agencies recognize how much usability matters and are starting to write it into their project specs.