MyPlate: USDA — Agile Approach to Promoting Healthy Eating
Agile delivery for the USDA’s flagship nutrition-education platform, MyPlate.gov.
One Dynamic supported the USDA’s MyPlate.gov nutrition-education platform — used by millions of Americans — through SAFe Agile delivery, accessibility-compliant design, and performance work tuned for peak traffic.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- One Dynamic supported USDA's MyPlate.gov — the flagship nutrition-education platform used by millions — through SAFe Agile delivery.
- Work emphasized responsive design, Section 508 accessibility as a baseline, content-management improvements, and performance tuning for campaign traffic spikes.
- High availability, accessibility compliance, and scalability are what make the platform's nationwide reach possible at the consistency the mission requires.
Project Overview
MyPlate.gov is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s flagship nutrition-education platform, designed to help Americans make healthier food choices. The site provides personalized nutrition guidance, dietary recommendations, and meal-planning tools that are used by millions of people across a wide range of devices, contexts, and accessibility needs.
Approach
One Dynamic supported the platform’s development and ongoing maintenance using SAFe Agile practices, delivering iterative improvements rather than large-batch releases. The work emphasized responsive design across the device profiles the platform’s audience actually uses, Section 508 accessibility compliance as a baseline rather than a final gate, content management enhancements to reduce the friction of keeping the platform’s nutrition guidance current, and performance optimization tuned for the periodic traffic spikes the site experiences around public-facing campaigns.
Impact
The platform serves millions of Americans with personalized nutrition guidance and supporting tools. The engineering work — high availability, accessibility compliance, and scalability for peak traffic — is what makes that audience reach possible at the consistency the program’s mission requires.
Frequently Asked Questions
What did One Dynamic do for USDA's MyPlate.gov?
Supported development and ongoing maintenance of the MyPlate.gov nutrition-education platform using SAFe Agile practices — delivering responsive design, Section 508 accessibility, content-management enhancements, and performance optimization for periodic traffic spikes.
How was accessibility handled on MyPlate.gov?
Section 508 accessibility compliance was treated as a baseline requirement rather than a final gate, so the platform serves millions of Americans across a wide range of devices, contexts, and accessibility needs.
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