Helping Good Ideas Travel Across State Lines
Public-sector digital services succeed when good ideas spread. At Mighty Acorn Digital, we act as connective tissue—moving effective engineering and delivery practices across state lines and into the hands of teams who need them. This site curates those lessons into a clear, evolving reference for building trustworthy, human-centered government services at scale.
For complex systems, unit and integration tests are inadequate for catching many types of issues that would prevent users from successfully using the system. Human-centered testing focuses on simulating real user interactions and behaviors to ensure a better user experience.
To limit work in progress and make a small-PR workflow possible, set a team norm of prioritizing code reviews over other tasks.
A picture says a thousand words. Use Mermaid diagrams to clearly communicate complex ideas in your documentation.