Completed Drupal site or project URL: https://covid.ri.govWith a network of websites mired in old, outdated platforms, the State of Rhode Island was struggling to serve the communication needs of government agencies and their constituents. And then the pandemic hit.
COVID accelerated the demand for better, faster communication and greater efficiency amid the rapidly changing pandemic. It also spotlighted an opportunity to create a new centralized information hub. What the government needed was a single, cohesive design system that would allow departments to quickly publish and manage their own content, leverage a common and accessible design language, and use a central notification system to push shared content across multiple sites. 
With timely, coordinated news and notifications plus a visually unified set of websites, a new design system could turn the state’s fragmented digital network into a trusted resource, especially in a time of crisis.