Case study · Demo · Work in progress
Daftar — The Office · دفتر
A civic web product that makes government work simpler for people across India’s 36 States & UTs — plain language, place-first navigation, and multilingual framing (English / हिंदी / اردو).
Status: Public demo on GitHub Pages — not a production government launch. Features and content are still evolving.
Problem
Government information is scattered, jargon-heavy, and hard to start from “where I live.” People need a calm entry point — find my place — before forms and portals.
What this site is
- Hero: “Government work, made simple”
- Find my place + pick on map
- Stats for States & UTs coverage
- Language + theme controls
- Bharat · भारत · بھارت branding
Current state
- Clickable demo UX on GitHub Pages
- Place / map flows under active build
- Honest WIP — designed to show direction
What Daftar is about
Daftar (दफ़्तर / دفتر) means “the office” — the desk where official work happens. The product idea is to treat civic tasks like something a person can approach without already knowing which department owns what.
The demo is aimed at people who need Aadhaar, ration, police, land, school, or a State website — and need the right door in plain words. Instead of dumping a directory of schemes and PDFs, it leads with orientation: where are you? Find my place, pick on a map of India, or browse States & UTs. From there the interface can narrow down what matters for that place.
Product surface in the demo
- Find my place — search / entry to locate your State or UT
- Pick on map — visual selection for people who think geographically
- Coverage stats — at-a-glance numbers (36 States & UTs and related counts in the UI)
- Language & theme — accessibility and preference without burying controls
- Multilingual identity — English, Devanagari, and Urdu wordmarks so the brand reads as Bharat-facing, not English-only
My role
Concept, information architecture, visual design, and front-end build. I own the civic framing, the place-first UX, and the multilingual presentation. Iteration is AI-assisted (Claude / Cursor) with human review on clarity, mobile behaviour, and whether the copy still sounds like a person talking — not a portal template.
Why this matters for hire
This is not a client go-live yet — it’s a product sketch you can click. It shows I can take a complex domain (government / civic UX), reduce it to a clear first action, and ship a demo people can judge. The same honesty applies to other WIP builds on this portfolio: demos are labelled as demos; Padma Lights is the live operator site.
Stack & process
Front-end web app on GitHub Pages. Mobile-first design, plain-language content, and progressive enhancement. Work continues on map/place data depth and content structure before any claim of production readiness.