Welcome to our time capsule! Throughout the life of this project, we have taken snapshots every so often to capture the progression of the design. Here are the major iterations of the app over time — it's come a long way!

APD process before the project started

All of the content was authored in Word Documents and relied on change tracking and highlighting updates. The APD format consisted mainly of long blocks of content and in-line tables.

Early prototype designed by CMS (January 2018)

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February 2018

March 2018

May 2018

July 2018

Main sidebar with state profile

February 2019

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March 2019

Uses the CMS Design System and reflects Layer 1 functionality as an APD builder

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May 2019

Applying more of the CMS Design System including updated header, removal of accordions, addition of floating save button.

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July 2019

Refining the styles in the CMS Design System, updated footer, and updated tables.

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November 2019

Activity section expands below in the long scroll version

January 2020

Activity section opens up in a modal

May 2020

Autosave implemented and added to header, sticky left navigation, paginated view

January 2021

No major overall design changes. The focus has been on accessibility improvements, content consistency, smaller refinements based on user research, like reorganizing some pages in the navigation, changing the navigation labels to increase understanding, and updating fields and help text with in the app to get the right information that needs to be collected. A bigger design update is forthcoming in 2021!