About Spread The Vote 🗣️

Spread The Vote is a nonprofit that empowers low-informed voters and new voters through friendly, accessible resources. They strengthen communities through advocacy initiatives like Project ID, Read The F*ing Directions, and our current project—Encyclopedia Politica.

Project Objective 🌟

Encyclopedia Politica is a comprehensive, interactive database of every elected office in the United States, aimed at helping new and low-information voters understand each role. We brought this vision to life as a friendly, searchable directory that makes finding information quick and intuitive.

Project Demo Video 🎥

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A look into our process… 💭

Connecting with the Client

Through our initial meetings with the team at Spread the Vote, we learned about their mission and what they hoped to achieve with the Encyclopedia Politica project. Afterwards, we narrowed down the main goals of our project:

  1. Create a dynamic and universal template that could be applied to all pages of the website.
  2. Organize the website in a way that was simple to maintain and built-to-scale up with appointed offices and non-office related political information in the future.
  3. Build out other supplementary website pages to contextualize Encyclopedia Politica and all the individual office profiles
  4. Design an interface that was accessible, approachable, and credible using the design system that Spread The Vote provided.
  5. Develop an flexible search function that anticipates user needs and surfaces relevant content, even from incomplete or exploratory queries.
  6. Gather thorough user feedback to create an intuitive structure of the website and help demystify the U.S. government system.

Understanding our Users

Going into the project, our consideration of our users was double-barreled. There was the end-users that Encyclopedia Politica would serve, which comprised of:

  1. New or low-informed voters who wanted to learn more before voting.