President Trump signed an executive order creating a National Design Studio to improve the usability and aesthetics of federal digital services and named Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia chief design officer. Gebbia will report to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. The studio will advise agencies on reducing duplicative design costs and using standardized design on government interaction sites and will close in three years. The administration previously undertook efficiency projects such as DOGE led by Elon Musk that cut jobs, closed departments, and reclaimed funding. The administration halted several website-improvement projects, including an IRS free tax-filing tool to submit returns directly to the agency.
U.S. President Donald Trump will appoint Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia to lead a team charged with remaking the government's digital services, according to two officials familiar with the matter, as part of his goal to transform federal agencies in the name of efficiency. Trump signed an executive order creating a National Design Studio to improve the "usability and aesthetics" of federal digital services. Trump named Gebbia the chief design officer. He will report to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, according to the order.
Billionaire and former Trump adviser Elon Musk led the administration's initial project, called DOGE, to remake government in the name of efficiency. The initiative involved slashing jobs, shuttering departments, and clawing back funding to achieve Trump's political objectives. Former President Joe Biden in 2021 set a similar goal to make government websites easier to use. The Trump administration halted a few projects to accomplish that, including the IRS's free tool to file taxes directly to the agency.
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