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Redesigning BLS.gov

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By Barry Ritholtz - June 1st, 2010, 9:30AM

There is a fascinating competition from Sunlight Labs called Design for America:

The Design for America contest led to the most compelling, interesting visualizations of any of our contests. With about 72 entries, the design community stepped up and showed amazing ways for us to view government and imagine new ways for government to serve citizens. The category most illustrative of how government could work is probably the best Redesign of a .Gov Website. We had a lot of great entries in the category– including this wonderful redesign of the Social Security Administration, and a great upgrade of DOL.gov, but the one that really took the cake was a redesign of IRS.gov.

The redesign that was of most interest to TBP readers was the Bureau of Labor, most particularly, the redo of BLS. There is a ton of great data and info on the BLS site, but it is not the most accessible and easiest to find.

Here is the redo:

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Category: Data Analysis, Digital Media, Employment.

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7 Responses to “Redesigning BLS.gov”

  1. franklin411 Says:
    June 1st, 2010 at 9:49 am

    Nice! Maybe it’s a good thing after all to have a President who doesn’t think of the internet as akin to a bunch of tubes!

  2. rktbrkr Says:
    June 1st, 2010 at 10:01 am

    Who said “jobless recovery”?

    une 1 (Bloomberg) — Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s largest personal-computer maker, plans to cut a net 3,000 jobs as it beefs up its computer-services business to compete with International Business Machines Corp.

  3. constantnormal Says:
    June 1st, 2010 at 10:05 am

    Now all we need is a contest to redesign the government — the quadrennial ones we presently have seeming to do more in the way of reinforcing bad habits than delivering change …

  4. rktbrkr Says:
    June 1st, 2010 at 3:16 pm

    Even worse than original headline , HPQ is eliminating 9000 US jobs and hiring 6000 Indians and others for “only” a net loss of 3000. Sweet.

    June 1 (Bloomberg) — Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s largest personal-computer maker, plans to cut about 9,000 jobs and retool its computer-services business to help it compete with International Business Machines Corp.

    HP will take a $1 billion charge for paying severance and modernizing its data centers to provide more automated services to customers, it said today in a regulatory filing. The Palo Alto, California-based company plans to replace about 6,000 of the eliminated positions with workers in different countries.

  5. Expat Says:
    June 1st, 2010 at 4:15 pm

    More wasted taxpayer money. You want a cheap and sensible relooking of the BLS?

    Drop the “L”.

  6. lalaland Says:
    June 1st, 2010 at 9:08 pm

    check out the irs redesign – sweet mama!

  7. egockel Says:
    June 5th, 2010 at 1:36 am

    @expat, no taxpayer money wasted yet. It was a contest. And at a $5k prize for each department, that’s at least 1/10th of what they’d pay an established shop to come up with.

    Nice to see the shop that redesigned the BOL website chose to liberally copy user interfaces (UI) from mint.com… I reckon when you use contests you don’t have to worry about messy things like your vendors having professional liability insurance.

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