NASA rebuilt NASA.gov from the ground up using the Horizon Design System, presented by Ben Shown and Megan Greco at Figma Config 2025. This was not a visual refresh. It was a systematic redesign meant to unify how the agency communicates missions, breakthroughs, and science across one of the most visited government domains on the internet.
The session goes inside the actual process: stakeholder alignment across a sprawling federal organization, designing at scale for audiences ranging from schoolchildren to aerospace engineers, and building a design system that has to work under institutional constraints most design teams never face. The tension between vision and velocity in a high-stakes government context is the real subject here.
If you work in design systems, public sector UX, or large-scale web infrastructure, the specifics of how Horizon was built and how NASA's team navigated bureaucratic and technical friction are worth your time. The conclusion is a redesigned site. The reason to watch is the method used to get there.
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