Icon-a-thon for Verification Documents

[alanjosephwilliams]

So in the process of working on Clean, we've come to a point where we need to communicate to multiple audiences—applicants and eligibility workers—about a somewhat heterogeneous set of "verification documents" that are applicant's are required to provide in order to enroll. Applicant's have many different primary languages, and workers have lots of information to parse. Let's use icons to communicate more clearly what is needed, and where it is!

I'll be doing this as part of the work on Clean, but I would to collaborate with others who love designing icons. @mollymcleod @tchu88 etc.

To demonstrate the need, here are some screenshots from the Noun Project.

[mollymcleod]

I'm in. I worked on an icon design project for people with cognitive disabilities or limited English skills, and I'm pretty sure we made icons for some of those documents.

[tchu88]

lol. need demonstrated. happy to help. when is this happening?

[alanjosephwilliams]

@mollymcleod @tchu88 awesome! I would love to do this sooner rather than later—use is starting to become clear in multiple Health projects.

Molly, the Show Me work is fantastic!

Could we / should we build on the work you've already done, or start anew? I dig the style I see.

[ainsleywagon]

Hey! We're doing an icon designathon (okay yeah iconathon basically) at Summit on Thursday morning and we'd love to have this to work with.

[greggish]

We've got iconography cooking in Open Referral, developed by DC organizer Jenn Stowe: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-5CZ4ZLjTHqd3FudldPRzBGVlczRlFCVk1CbWxMU1UtcVJV/edit?usp=sharing

In fact, there's a panel in there that is specific to things like documents, eligibility criteria, etc. very eager to elaborate on this.

[lippytak]

Here's what @alanjosephwilliams and @ainsleywagon (and others?) came up with: http://thenounproject.com/CodeForAmerica/collection/civic-icons/

hotness.