Trump's plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors

President Trump created the National Design Studio to redesign all U.S. government websites using AI, with the goal of making them more usable and attractive within three years. After about a year, the initiative has produced minimal results, with most launched sites consisting of single pages or odd redirects, and design experts have criticized the team for relying too heavily on AI and failing to ensure accessibility compliance. The effort was complicated by cuts to the agencies previously responsible for government website improvements, which had struggled for years to get federal agencies to adopt updated web standards. The mismatch between the ambitious three-year timeline and the small team size, combined with heavy AI reliance and lack of testing, has led to visible design problems and growing agency resistance to the redesign effort.