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Whitney Quesenbery — Design as a Civic Responsibility

Author
Goodstuff.FM
Published
Tue 11 Apr 2017
Episode Link
https://share.transistor.fm/s/e420b14c

Whitney is Co-Director of Civic Design and is an expert in user research, user experience, and usability, with a passion for clear communication.
She’s the author of three books: A Web for Everyone, Storytelling in User Experience, and Global UX.







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Jump to a conversation on…


  • 1:43 What is Whitney up to these days?

  • 2:44 What is civic design? What is the realm of civic design?

  • 6:00 Why be a poll worker and its importance of?

  • 7:15 How are you helping making poll working better?

  • 8:00 What makes a better voter guide?

  • 10:40 Was there quantifiable results?

  • 12:45 What else does she work on? What type of training?

  • 16:00 Story of government database being mixed up.

  • 18:25 Provisional voting, how it works & election day registration.

  • 20:35 Journey mapping a voter’s trip to the election day

  • 23:20 The greatest way to get people to vote.

  • 24:25 Any crazy ballot designs from recent memory?

  • 26:49 What are ways to make voting more accessible?

  • 28:03 Design course open to everyone?

  • 30:40 Where can people find this Civic Design course?

  • 33:02 What about open source voting systems?

  • 35:03 How do you ensure you get all the input from all the people?

  • 37:20 It’s hard to trust something when you don’t know what’s inside it.

  • 37:55 Chris’ shoutout to Florida

  • 38:40 How can people follow up with what’s going on?

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