Last few years of Congress: https://andratwiro.github.io/riot/?city=congress&solo=1

Reichtag during Hitler's takeover: https://andratwiro.github.io/riot/?city=weimar&solo=1

There's a good quote [1] from Marten Kaevats (digital advisor to Estonia) on how they do it, and it goes much further than the security of the tech itself: "The main lesson learnt in building a digital society for the past 25 years in Estonia is that digital government has got very little to do with technology and everything to do with building a mindset and culture for trust."

[1] https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2020/11/02/why-don-t-more...

I'll be glad to share the project over DM, feel free to shoot me an email :)

Also, Plasmic looks really interesting, I'm looking forward to try it out.

Of course the initial users will experience a slow product, but the idea is to discover faster what a useful product looks like without investing development resources.

It can be slightly hacked around to add user authentication & analytics, so if you are handling a small amount of users its a really efficient way to iterate fast.

https://www.framer.com/user-testing/

The prototypes can be heavy on the browser, but once you go past that the immersion level is deep. You can even add custom google analytics events for quant analysis.

Page builders in my experience aren't efficient to design, this on the other hand makes designing easier (as I have access to interactive components, real client data, etc).

On the – non Beta – Desktop version, it works as a single folder file (pretty sizeable, +150mb) that you can host anywhere, and renders the prototype within an iframe.

The team at Farfetch did a custom component to do something similar to what you mention (if I understood you well): https://youtu.be/LEMGL2NH0r8?t=2760

I think the export might not be so suited for bigger teams though. For reference, a simple 4-page navigation can lead to a +200mb file export, and its basically HTML within an iframe.

For the team as a whole, I think its more about having the designers speak the same language as devs on a shared interface. It empowers us as it makes exporting prototypes for user testing that can be easily hosted as if they were coded for real, and forces us to focus on interactivity & flows rather than the design per se.

I've recently made the switch to a similar workflow with Framer just a year ago, the difference here being that devs in my team use & maintain the same components that I use for prototypes/design, so the collaboration aspect is quite seamless: https://github.com/framer/framer-bridge-starter-kit

My team has been using our Framer export (with a few tweaks) as the actual final UI for our early product. Designing is as easy as in Figma, with the advantage that you have actual React components out of the box (working chart libraries, video components... any package you want to use). Whatever you design is responsive, can be connected via API to any database, and all of this is done collaboratively in the same document.

It has been a mind-blowing experience in terms of product shipping speed, and as a designer, it really makes you connect in a deeper way with the complexity of the final code.

COVID has affected quite a lot. Most of the processes have stopped as the government shut down the in-person offices, and now they are slowly reopening... and the situation was already crowded before the pandemic. On the positive side, extradition orders have been temporarily paused.

Specifically, I'm working with a local pro-refugee organization in a densely immigrant populated region in Spain. There's a complex chain of steps that you have to go through in order to acquire citizenship. Only people with access to good lawyers are able to deal with all the bureaucracy of the process, without mentioning other problems (missing obscure expiry dates that reset your process, language-related problems, local government workers not actually knowing/willing-fully ignoring migrants' rights...).

There's a good network of volunteer lawyers working on this issue, but its not scalable. I'm working on a platform that would allow migrants to solve their own situation, by crowdsourcing the knowledge of lawyers on a case-per-case basis and offering a simple interface in their language to track open processes & discovered the ones they need to go through and how.

As an abstraction for this, I've been thinking on how we could improve citizen/government communication. A small use case / example for this could be refugee camps. My previous experience here is that they are small, disconnected communities with a top-down type of organisation towards the camp organisers. It shouldn't be hard to provide real-time tools for connecting both, potentially leading to things like asking for their needs, managing their legal situation, or even allowing for voting & self-governing.

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I was just listing regions that might have historical reasons and even parties with strong independent ideals, versus a group of friends wanting to separate from Spain for the sake of the argument.

- a different language? - a well defined culture? - a political composition which differs greatly to that the rest of the country? (check the representation of the PP and PSOE)

If you are interested in discussing the reality of the Spanish situation, it is pretty clear where this right of seccesion might want to get exercised (Basque Country, Galicia...) and for sound, historical reasons.