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23 October 2026 · Editorial review

I reread the whole site, starting from two editorial reviews: one of my own and one by someone with writing experience. The main corrections:

• How many countries have a design system. Instead of “more than 20 European countries”, I now count the EU states, according to a written criterion: 15 of the 27 have an active national system, 5 have only part of one, 7 have none at all. The criterion is in the Design systems in Europe. The systems outside the EU remain, as examples of what is worth adopting and what should be avoided.
• “First the system, then the obligation”. I narrowed the claim to what the research shows: in the states that made a design system mandatory, the system already existed when the obligation came.
• The role of artificial intelligence. The What it is based on page now says exactly what it did: searching, extracting and helping to draft the research, following my instructions. I removed the sentence saying that every claim on the site had been checked against its source.
• The sources. The 377 documents are the official files downloaded for three of the research documents, not the total of all sources.
• The cost per inhabitant. The 6–9 euro cents a year cover only the common system, not the adaptation of institutions’ websites.
• European money for town halls now appears as a proposal, not as a certain source.
• The demonstration in chapter 5. It needs JavaScript; the text said otherwise. The final message now says that the application was not sent anywhere and that the registration number is fictitious. The trust banner no longer presents the padlock (HTTPS) as proof that a website is official.
• The accessibility statement. I redid the checks on all pages and separated the confirmed problems from the limitations and from what remains to be checked.
• The American system (USWDS). I removed the unsourced superlatives and put the year next to each adoption percentage.
• The licences. I wrote out in full the attribution conditions for CC BY 4.0 and what EUPL-1.2 actually requires.
• References to laws. I checked the claims that cite legal acts against the official texts and clarified a few wordings: Law no. 242/2022 requires multilingualism to be taken into account; OUG no. 112/2018 (Government Emergency Ordinance) has applied to all public websites since September 2020; the fine in the OUG means about 21,600–43,250 lei; the design model of the Republic of Moldova was established by HG no. 677/2025 (government decision) and approved by the Electronic Governance Agency.
• Independence. The footer and the “About me” section say more clearly that the site is a personal project, which does not represent any institution, company or political organisation.

21 October 2026 · First publication

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