Travis County VDR Toolkit
The Travis County Voter Registration Toolkit is the resource hub for Volunteer Deputy Registrars (VDRs) — the trained volunteers who register their neighbors and help keep Travis County over 90% registered. It gathers the training, programs, events, and materials a VDR needs in one place.
The program had outgrown its original website. B-59 rebuilt it from the ground up: we migrated every page of the legacy site into a fast, accessible, installable web app, and organized the content so the office can keep it current without touching code.
What we did
- Migrated the full content library and restructured it as typed data — so editing a page means editing content, not markup.
- Designed a calm, non-partisan civic identity in Travis County navy and Texas gold, built on our shared civic design system.
- Built to WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility, with a published accessibility statement.
- Shipped it as a Progressive Web App — installable to a phone's home screen and usable offline.
- Recovered and curated the program's original artwork and infographics, and documented a clear media and content hand-off.
Why we built this
Travis County approached us to redesign the Toolkit and turn it into a mobile-first experience — something VDRs could actually use in the field, on a phone, while they're registering voters. The original site worked at a desk but not on the ground, which is where most of the work happens.
So we rebuilt it mobile-first and installable, and restructured the content so the training, programs, and materials a VDR needs are a tap away wherever they are — and so the office can keep it current without touching code.