STOA / PROTOTYPE GALLERY
A working set of civic prototypes: full city and county sites, single-mission service systems, and standalone tools.
Curatorial Note
These aren't mood boards. Every piece favors working interactions, source-backed content, accessibility passes, and enough real pages to show the whole system.
Collection 01 / Cities & Counties
Full public-site prototypes for cities, villages, counties, and townships, each one a task-first redesign with search, records, and meetings built in.
A research university, redesigned around its people.
An oakland.edu redesign concept with a live, accessible design system, audience-first pathways, a 168-program finder, and an Ask Oakland answer surface.
The city's front desk, now online.
A search-first city site with an Ask Dover assistant, 553 records, a staff CMS, and a clean accessibility audit.
The business district that feels like a neighborhood.
A search-first city site for a marquee St. Louis arts-and-business suburb — permit payments built for Tyler Incode, a citizen request form, a board meetings record, and a clean accessibility audit.
A lakeside village that doesn't run you in circles.
Bilingual search, full Spanish pages, and a live accessibility audit for a village settled in 1908.
Built brick by brick since 1890.
Typo-proof search, a working calendar, and document archives for a Kane County village.
A beach town with its house in order.
Built around visitors, residents, and records, with CMS workflow, search, and coastal alerts.
City services for a small town on a big lake.
Pay a bill, pull a permit, find a council agenda, or book a shelter, all from one search box.
A little town, a lot of tradition.
Council agendas, water-bill payments, and record search, wrapped in the town's grape-harvest heritage.
Nature Right Here, services one click away.
Semantic search and task-first navigation, with parks, bill pay, and police, fire, and Spanish pages.
Michigan's Shoreline County, built to get things done.
Pay taxes, look up a parcel, or find a board agenda, with press-to-search and an audit that cleared 123 violations.
Where horse trails meet city services.
A WordPress build with records, an events calendar, and an accessibility audit for a gated equestrian community.
Lake-community life, simplified.
Forms, a trustee directory, and an ordinance archive in a calmer flow, with an accessibility audit.
Township business, all in one place.
Services, legal notices, and resident contact paths, organized task-first and built to WCAG 2.1 AA.
Start where you are.
A concept redesign of The Reading League: an audience-first front door, site-wide resource search, and an accessible, governed chapter network. Independent demo by Stoa.
We're going to transform it.
Home · Transform Education New Mexico prototype by Stoa working prototype prepared by Stoa.
See the water Indiana is measuring, right now.
A concept public portal for Indiana's water data: live USGS streamflow and groundwater across every county and watershed sub-basin, with trends, downloads, and answers.
What do you want to explore today?
A working concept for the Great Lakes Bay STEM Career Exposure Resource Hub: a searchable regional repository of career videos, virtual tours, lessons, and family activities. Prototype by Stoa Works for the Bay-Arenac ISD RFP.
Because tomorrow can’t wait.
Concept redesign of riseresilience.org by Stoa: search-first access to innovation challenges, applicant resources, and an accessibly rendered impact record.
Collection 02 / Authorities & Districts
Courts, housing authorities, utilities, and special districts, where the work is specialized and the records have to be right.
Four Results Areas, woven together.
A familyleague.org redesign concept for the City of Baltimore's Local Management Board — instant site search and a Results-Area funding index built on the agency's real butterfly palette, an interactive four-color braid that organizes the work, and an honest before/after accessibility audit of the live site (6 serious axe violations → 0).
One public front door for service, readiness, and recovery.
A paired Serve Alabama and Ready Alabama concept with 124 source-backed records, six brand directions, and a staff-owned CMS.
Renewing water. Recovering resources.
A water-recovery utility with PARC facility mapping, a podcast, bilingual search, and open-data hooks.
How can the court help you today?
Docket lookup, a self-help center, online payments, and Spanish navigation for a Kansas district court.
Affordable housing with compassion and kindness.
A bilingual, audience-first housing authority prototype with resident, landlord, application, Section 504, search, HUD-feed, and accessibility-audit flows.
Cleaner air for Yolo County and northeastern Solano.
A special-district redesign prototype with live air-quality readings, burn-day guidance, grant comparison, forms, search, Spanish pages, and audit notes.
The road home starts here.
Apply for housing, track a waitlist, or become a landlord, with bilingual flows and resident-first tasks.
From the marina to Broadway, momentum you can see.
Projects, programs, board meetings, and site-wide search for a Florida redevelopment agency.
Court services, a few clicks away.
Jury duty, payments, forms, and case lookup for Jackson County, built accessibility-first.
Collection 03 / Parks & Destinations
Parks, preserves, a zoo, a venue, and a tourism atlas, where photography and wayfinding carry as much weight as the navigation.
Where Louisville meets the wild.
Plan a visit, find an animal, and buy tickets across 130 acres at the State Zoo of Kentucky.
What do you need today?
A program pathfinder, parks and records search, and a staff directory, all accessibility-checked.
Explore 45 preserves across 11,600 acres.
A preserve finder, golf reservations, and an events calendar, with a full accessibility pass.
FPWC golf: tee times, passes, and outings.
A standalone golf microsite with real-time tee times, pass sales, and mobile-first booking.
Travel Native Wisconsin, respectfully.
A trip-planning atlas with an interactive map, a cultural-events calendar, and tribal-nation search.
Big nights on the big lake.
A venue-campus site for Duluth's lakefront arena, theater, and convention center, with event search.
Collection 04 / Schools & Campuses
Schools, universities, a research institute, and education nonprofits, built for students, faculty, and mission-driven audiences.
A bridge between Bay science and the people who depend on it.
An mdsg.umd.edu redesign concept for the NOAA + University System of Maryland partnership — deep search and an Ask Maryland Sea Grant answer surface over the agency's real research, publications, and magazine, an immersive Chesapeake Quarterly story reader, and a live editorial-workflow demo, all in a Chesapeake-estuary world.
Enrollment clarity without a redesign.
A path finder and enrollment funnel layered onto an existing WordPress and HubSpot stack.
One campus. Many ways forward.
Degree, certificate, and workforce pathways from partner schools, gathered under one downtown roof.
Home for the state's young scientists.
A redesign and content-management concept for South Carolina's residential public STEM school.
One Gulf. One Institute. One web presence.
A unified, accessible site for the Harte Research Institute's Gulf of Mexico science.
One campus, many ways to navigate.
A flexible component system for admissions, news, and campus pages, built to accessibility standards.
Collection 05 / Search, Maps & Dashboards
Standalone tools, semantic search, data dashboards, maps, and portals, that can ship alone or drop into a larger agency site.
Data made public, stories made clear.
A searchable dataset catalog with narrative briefs and AI-assisted lookup, in English and Spanish.
Ask across municipal meeting archives.
Natural-language search across public meeting records, with citations, filters, and a conventional archive path for auditability.
Compare spending without opening a PDF.
A cross-city budget explorer showing FY 2024-25 municipal spending patterns through interactive charts and structured data.
A resident-task front door.
A mobile-first civic portal concept that puts common resident jobs ahead of department structure.
Fast search over federal recall data.
Accessible search over Consumer Product Safety Commission recall records, built for practical public lookup.
A clearer loop from resident report to staff response.
A service-request prototype for issue intake, status tracking, assignment, and public-facing resolution history.
Find the right public place by amenity, access, and city.
A map-and-directory prototype for parks, recreation centers, trails, and public facilities using open mapping tools.
