AlmatyAtau
Platform for digitizing documents for Almaty's onomastics department and exploring the history of city streets
Designed the interface
My contribution covers the design of the presented screens and journeys.
The challenge
Almaty's onomastics department worked with a huge volume of paper documents: orders, street renaming archives, historical references — everything stored physically and difficult to access.
A platform needed to be created that solves two tasks simultaneously: digitize all documentation for department staff and open the history of every street to city residents.
These screens represent my contribution. Other parts of the live product may have been designed by the wider team.
City history for residents. An archive for staff.
Interviews with department staff identified two contexts. Residents want a street and the story behind its name. Staff manage records and documents. The public entry emphasizes discovery; the staff view emphasizes filtering and the register.
One street, a connected history
The street page brings together key facts, the person behind its name, a map and a timeline. Each historical change has a date and a distinct entry, connecting geography with archival context.
Facts are grouped into a compact table.
A timeline makes the sequence of name changes visible.
The map keeps the location in context.
Supporting the everyday workflow
Internal screens cover requests and content management. Requests are separated into unprocessed, processed and archived states. The activity editor keeps answer-type selection beside its content.
Shared rules across the screens
The source UI kit includes Montserrat Alternates and Montserrat, colors, button variants, fields and navigation states. Street categories have their own icon vocabulary. The board below comes directly from the design file.
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The project’s character
The outcome
A complete UX/UI product for a government agency was created from scratch.
The platform moves document work from paper format to digital — without losing structure or legal significance of documents.
The public part makes the history of Almaty's streets accessible to every city resident.