The official municipal website for the newest city in the Rio Grande Valley, a launch site unlike any place on Earth. I designed and built a dark, cinematic government site that carries civic information with the gravity of a space program.
Wireframes mapped the information hierarchy and the reusable modules before any styling.
A vertical stack that opens cinematic and resolves into scannable civic modules.
A government site lives or dies on wayfinding. Top-level categories open into grouped panels rather than long dropdowns.
The workhorse template. A repeating CMS collection of titled records, each with a downloadable document, paginated with View All.
The same stack, collapsed to one column. Hero shrinks, mega-menus fold into an accordion drawer, modules become full-width.
Near-monochrome, photography-led
A deliberately narrow kit: one near-black palette, one engineering typeface, and a small set of modules that staff recombine. Restraint is the brand.
There is no marketing accent color by design. Photography supplies every warm tone on the site.
Primary action is a ghost button: translucent black fill, 1px Paper-35 border, 4px radius. Solid Paper button reserved for the rare conversion CTA. Inline text links for document downloads.
CMS-bound live indicators for beach and road access. Color is allowed here — and only here — because the state itself is the information.
Image-led card used across Explore and gallery rows. Media on top, DIN title, muted location/subtitle. Whole card is the link target.
Top-of-page alert bar on the Slate tint. Long messages auto-scroll; short ones sit static. Highest-priority civic channel.
