Routing logic in complex web applications can be a source of confusion and bugs. It pays off if the technical solution your team chooses for managing routing logic makes it easy to change where pages route to, and provides a holistic view of how pages connect to each other. …

One of the React concepts I commonly see trip up folks when they’re initially learning React are how “props” work. Props is short for “properties” and understanding how to work with props is a fundamental part of working with React. Below is a brief introduction to props, through the lens…

This is part of a series of blog posts about Nava Public Benefit Corporation’s partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to design and build a new eligibility application for millions of Americans seeking health coverage on HealthCare.gov. Read more in this series. In a previous post, we…

How we determined the sequencing of questions, and the design patterns we chose to break a complex form into digestible chunks. — This is part of a series of blog posts about Nava Public Benefit Corporation’s partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to design and build a new eligibility application for millions of Americans seeking health coverage on HealthCare.gov. Read more in this series.

Nava PBC’s approach and design patterns — During the Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment last year, more than 7.5 million eligibility applications, encompassing over 11 million Americans seeking health coverage, were submitted on HealthCare.gov. After applying, people are informed about what kind of health coverage they are eligible for and how much financial assistance they qualify for…

Using a serverless approach, natural language processing, and SMS — Update (2023): Read how I built a Semantic Search feature for my reading highlights. In 2015, I wrote about my workflow for exporting my reading highlights, and how I publish those highlights to my personal website. My personal challenge in 2015 and still today: How might I gather all my…

In a previous post we talked about how we’re working with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to create an open source design system for HealthCare.gov. In this post, I’d like to share some of the bigger technical decisions we made while building that design system. Fortunately, a…

At Nava we’ve been working with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to create an open source design system for HealthCare.gov. The design system is a set of design and front-end development resources for creating Section 508 compliant, responsive, and consistent websites. We’re excited about the release of…

Recommended reads related to civic tech, health, government, behavioral science, design and engineering — At Nava we have a living Google Doc where we link to books that help us understand the systems and architecture we use. …