| Explore data |
Left-hand menu; leads to “explore data” decision tree, or shows user’s location in a report derived from this decision tree. |
| Search |
Used both to indicate “find a government” entry-point in left hand menu, and as an affordance within text-searchable fields |
| Your entity |
Left-hand menu; on click, expands to display quick-links to each gov profile associated with the user. This is only visible to local government users. |
| Annual filing |
Left-hand menu; outlink to SAO annual filing feature. Visible only to local government users. |
| Welcome |
Gives the app a sense of warmth and personality! Visible in initial onboarding sequence. |
| Advisory |
Used in modal windows that advise the user about restrictions, changes, and/or decision junctures. |
| Entity summary report |
Represents the single-page summary report that condenses the content of the government profile. |
| Date |
Represents the single-page summary report that condenses the content of the government profile. |
| Contact |
Represents contacting a government. |
| Edit line |
Used to immediately edit individual data lines when in the financial indicators (“healthiness graph”) view. This is an immediate edit, and thus must be visually distinguished from “suggest edit” below. |
| Suggest edit |
Represents suggesting an edit to a government or government type’s information. Any edit would not be immediately reflected (it must be reviewed by the SAO), so this icon is visually distinguished from “edit line” above. |
| Historical data |
Represents data that is either an earlier snapshot, or a filing from previous years |
| Up/down trend |
Used only when describing relative items: rankings against other governments, for example. |
| Government |
Represents a government entity. |
| Annual filing data report |
Represents annual filing data view. Must imply a spreadsheet in a friendly way. |
| Here pin |
Used as a modifier when peer sets are shown on gov-profile pages. The gov entity on the active profile is shown with a “here” pin, to distinguish this entity from the rest of the peer set. |
| Download |
Used anytime something is downloadable! If there are options for filetypes, these would display in a dropdown after this icon is selected. If there are no filetype options, though, the file would download immediately. |
| Print |
Generates a printable view, and triggers a print dialogue on the user’s computer. |
| Copy link |
Used to copy a link URL string, once generated. (This URL would be unique to the user’s report view and variables, much like creating a new “share Google Map” link.) |
| Display options |
Represents the display options for units (dollars, thousands, millions; percentages or integers), etc. |
| Report layout builder |
Represents a functionality that allows the user to rearrange the rows/columns in their report “spreadsheet.” Ergo, this icon must clearly show distinct rows + columns. |
| Projection |
Represents the “look forward” functionality that allows a user to create a what-if report for future years. |
| Report menu |
Represents the location of all operative choices for viewing data. |
| Data graphing |
Represents the visualization feature, which outputs a quick image file to visualize user selected data. |
| Data warning |
Used in the sticky “data status” indicator when a projection is active. Warns the user that the data they’re viewing is not “canonical.” |