The COVID-19 Housing Policy Scorecard was a project that monitored eviction protections between March 15, 2020 to June 30, 2021.

New data was constantly added while this was being designed and developed. The design had to be kept simple in order to accommodate changes down the road. I sketched out multiple ways to organise information in the simplest way.

The scorecard contains data from thousands of emergency orders, declarations, and legislation. One interaction pattern I made use of in order to reduce complexity was progressive disclosure. As the design developed, I had to keep reorganising information to not overwhelm the user.

In-depth explanations and advanced features were moved from the main page to individual state pages.  Accordions were used to hide policies in order to allow the user to easily scan the list of states. Two benefits of this were that it allowed users to share state pages easily and helped SEO.

The Scorecard was featured in numerous media outlets, including Hasan Minhaj’s Patriot Act television series, the Washington Post, CNBC, NPR, and Fast Company.