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Good point! Lots of ways to serve.

Our mission has remained very consistent: use design and technology best practices to improve government services. The new administration has different policy priorities, but it has been remarkable to see the bipartisan support for our mission. Our work has remained largely the same. The major difference is fewer technologists are raising their hands for public service now, which constrains our ability to improve things.

Some people might not have realized USDS is still around since it was best known for the Healthcare.gov rescue under Obama. But it's still here, and still hiring people to work on problems like this www.usds.gov/join

From our Website:

There are several ways you can plug in to the big problems we’re solving. You'll drive vision for a better government, working alongside policymakers, agency leaders, and program teams to build world-class digital services.

Product Managers -- We are looking for product managers who can balance user needs with business requirements and apply technical knowledge to bring world-class digital services to the American people. You'll need to manage complex projects to hit tight deadlines without sacrificing quality. If you feel comfortable reviewing engineering design documents, project plans, and contracts, and you can communicate technical concepts to various audiences up and down the command chain, we're looking for you.

Engineers -- Our engineering leads will drive technical teams to build large-scale, innovative products that serve the American people. You need to be an expert strategizer, fixer, and builder with the engineering chops to roll up your sleeves and push your own code. You'll provide leadership on major technology projects, manage project teams with focus and vision, contribute to product strategy, and support strong teams of engineers.

Designers -- We are looking for designers from an array of disciplines — experts in research, UX, service design, product strategy, visual/UI design, and content strategy. Whatever your flavor, you embrace complexity and revel in drawing simplicity and clarity out of thorny challenges. You are a relentless advocate for the needs of users. You will help lead teams and prototype, test, and iterate on services and products. You will help build the Federal Government’s capacity to deliver services to the American people.

It's pretty damning of the HealthKit product team that a post like this is required. Why would Apple publish the app at all?

It seems like they should have released iOS8 with some kind of simple pedometer/stair counting app that looked good and was easy to use, like a reference application to show what HealthKit could be used for, and then buried the HealthKit app as it currently stands in some settings menu that most people will never need to look at.

The only thing I can imagine is that they intended to roll out a bunch of HealthKit-compatible apps from third parties like Nike and FitBit along with iOS8, but the bug messed up their release plan.