And then consider: any states' rights and local governance arguments aside,
can someone in the design community do something about a national standard
in balloting and good design? (I have no ideas for how to effect this,
just throwing it out to anyone who might want to chew on it.)
> And then consider: any states' rights and local governance arguments
> aside, can someone in the design community do something about a national
> standard in balloting and good design? (I have no ideas for how to effect
> this, just throwing it out to anyone who might want to chew on it.)
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Dana Chisnell, Michelle Gray, Erin Liman and a few others have been on top
of this. Consider this my pinging Erin and Michelle (not sure if Dana is on
this list or not) to chime in with more details on their project but it's
worth taking a look at Civic Designing first: http://civicdesigning.org/
(looks like Dave beat me to it, but this is the bigger project the
kickstarter is tied to).
There are a couple of challenges that this email gets me thinking about,
not necessarily related (but kinda):
1) How do we accelerate change inside (and working with from the outside)
massively complex bureaucratic systems? Changes happen, but they are slow
to surface (and if designed well, they often come about almost invisibly
after the first "huh" that we note where something we're doing seems to be
"better").
2) Reading David Weinberger's "Too Much to Know" it seems to me that
there's so much going on all the time, and it's really difficult to keep up
with what everyone is up to (and many of us in this group, particularly,
are up to way too much). How do we improve our reach into what anyone (let
alone this group) is doing on topics that are overlapping or adjacent to
our interests or focus? It's not just an Overlap question... it's another
take on how to work with complexity.
-a-
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Lina Srivastava <l...@linasrivastava.com>wrote:
> And then consider: any states' rights and local governance arguments
> aside, can someone in the design community do something about a national
> standard in balloting and good design? (I have no ideas for how to effect
> this, just throwing it out to anyone who might want to chew on it.)
Great Michelle, wish I could vote…3 more months before I am a fully fledged african american.
Have a look at the work Ted Selker, one of my former professors, did a couple years back on voting machines - http://www.nist.gov/itl/vote/upload/7-Selker.pdf (i send this link blindly due to bandwidth issues) Please google him to see more of the work he did on this subject at the Media Lab.
New York Overlappers, let's meet for a glass of wine soon. I hope you all weathered the last week and are in good health. I will send an Eventbrite link out during the coming week. You can find me in Tribeca most days.
Best,
Marcel
PS - I have my own quirky kickstarter project to share next week. :)
> And then consider: any states' rights and local governance arguments aside, can someone in the design community do something about a national standard in balloting and good design? (I have no ideas for how to effect this, just throwing it out to anyone who might want to chew on it.)
This is great work! Dave and Aaron, I will share the kickstarter campaign and larger project via socmed. Marcel-- welcome to our side... will take a look at the paper and Selker's work.
Aaron-- even though I said "states' rights aside," in this case, it isn't simply a case of bureaucratic complexity -- a complicating factor is the sympathy for local governance and legislative authority in the US (which the Canada, the other country mentioned in the video piece doesn't share). I'm a fairly staunch opponent of states' rights theory in most contexts, but it's a fairly embedded American view. There is that to contend with, as well. in terms of thinking these issues through.
On Monday, November 5, 2012 2:45:26 PM UTC-5, Marcel Botha wrote:
> Great Michelle, wish I could vote…3 more months before I am a fully > fledged african american.
> Have a look at the work Ted Selker, one of my former professors, did a > couple years back on voting machines - > http://www.nist.gov/itl/vote/upload/7-Selker.pdf (i send this link > blindly due to bandwidth issues) Please google him to see more of the work > he did on this subject at the Media Lab.
> New York Overlappers, let's meet for a glass of wine soon. I hope you all > weathered the last week and are in good health. I will send an Eventbrite > link out during the coming week. You can find me in Tribeca most days.
> Best,
> Marcel
> PS - I have my own quirky kickstarter project to share next week. :)
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Dana Chisnell's kickstarter project to produce is one part of the effort
to educate local officials about the role of design in successful
democratic (small D) elections.
A national standard needs to compete with the current practices that
require county-by-county layout of physical ballots with states having
legislated aspects of ballot design differently from one another, including
details of the font size of candidates' names, the font size of party
affiliation and many other details that would fall to a designer in the
private sphere. The "late binding" of candidates or ballot issues to the
pre-determined election day date makes it all the more challenging to do a
good or excellent job on the design of the physical artifact. (At least one
of the conventions was held so late this year that it almost prevented
printing and sending ballots to overseas military by the required date.)
http://www.aiga.org/design-for-democracy/: This AIGA project helps match
designers with states which desires to employ one to implement various
voter education materials, poll worker materials, and other election
related matter. Two states have taken advantage of this over the past
several years and can attest to the usefulness of engaging a designer.
http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/better_design_better_el..."Better
design, better elections" is only one of several legal and
quasi-legal activities of the Brennan Center at NYU. People from the
usability and design communities have been collaborating with the attorneys
and legal students, and in the report cited here, have indicated 13 common
errors in ballot design that can be avoided, and thus improve the ability
of citizens to vote their intent.
One more item for today is that there are design challenges for people with
disabilities (including elders) beyond the ordinary ones. Two
workshops<http://elections.itif.org/projects/design-workshops/>were
held earlier this year to discuss and propose solutions to issues such
as pre-election information, in-person and remote voting, ballot design.
The sponsor of those workshops (ITIF) and federal level participating
agencies (e.g., NIST among others) are both looking for ways to move toward
nationals standards, while respecting states' rights.
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Lina Srivastava <l...@linasrivastava.com>wrote:
> And then consider: any states' rights and local governance arguments
> aside, can someone in the design community do something about a national
> standard in balloting and good design? (I have no ideas for how to effect
> this, just throwing it out to anyone who might want to chew on it.)
> Dana Chisnell's kickstarter project to produce is one part of the effort to educate local officials about the role of design in successful democratic (small D) elections.
> A national standard needs to compete with the current practices that require county-by-county layout of physical ballots with states having legislated aspects of ballot design differently from one another, including details of the font size of candidates' names, the font size of party affiliation and many other details that would fall to a designer in the private sphere. The "late binding" of candidates or ballot issues to the pre-determined election day date makes it all the more challenging to do a good or excellent job on the design of the physical artifact. (At least one of the conventions was held so late this year that it almost prevented printing and sending ballots to overseas military by the required date.)
> http://www.aiga.org/design-for-democracy/: This AIGA project helps match designers with states which desires to employ one to implement various voter education materials, poll worker materials, and other election related matter. Two states have taken advantage of this over the past several years and can attest to the usefulness of engaging a designer.
> http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/better_design_better_el... "Better design, better elections" is only one of several legal and quasi-legal activities of the Brennan Center at NYU. People from the usability and design communities have been collaborating with the attorneys and legal students, and in the report cited here, have indicated 13 common errors in ballot design that can be avoided, and thus improve the ability of citizens to vote their intent.
> One more item for today is that there are design challenges for people with disabilities (including elders) beyond the ordinary ones. Two workshops were held earlier this year to discuss and propose solutions to issues such as pre-election information, in-person and remote voting, ballot design. The sponsor of those workshops (ITIF) and federal level participating agencies (e.g., NIST among others) are both looking for ways to move toward nationals standards, while respecting states' rights.
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Lina Srivastava <l...@linasrivastava.com> wrote:
> Hi all--
> And then consider: any states' rights and local governance arguments aside, can someone in the design community do something about a national standard in balloting and good design? (I have no ideas for how to effect this, just throwing it out to anyone who might want to chew on it.)
Thanks, Nancy-- Great roundup. Thanks Shel-- Mary, if you've got anything to add, would love to hear it. Just to clarify, I'm not working on the issue myself, but I do want to be aware of the progress of these projects, so if there are soc/med accounts or newsletters I should follow, would you let me know?
On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 2:23:19 PM UTC-5, shel wrote:
> Mary Quandt -- are you in the house? I believe Mary worked for quite a > while on that AIGA project.
> ./s
> On Nov 6, 2012, at 12:25 PM, Nancy Frishberg wrote:
> Dana Chisnell's kickstarter project to produce is one part of the effort > to educate local officials about the role of design in successful > democratic (small D) elections.
> A national standard needs to compete with the current practices that > require county-by-county layout of physical ballots with states having > legislated aspects of ballot design differently from one another, including > details of the font size of candidates' names, the font size of party > affiliation and many other details that would fall to a designer in the > private sphere. The "late binding" of candidates or ballot issues to the > pre-determined election day date makes it all the more challenging to do a > good or excellent job on the design of the physical artifact. (At least one > of the conventions was held so late this year that it almost prevented > printing and sending ballots to overseas military by the required date.)
> http://www.aiga.org/design-for-democracy/: This AIGA project helps match > designers with states which desires to employ one to implement various > voter education materials, poll worker materials, and other election > related matter. Two states have taken advantage of this over the past > several years and can attest to the usefulness of engaging a designer.
> http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/better_design_better_el..."Better design, better elections" is only one of several legal and > quasi-legal activities of the Brennan Center at NYU. People from the > usability and design communities have been collaborating with the attorneys > and legal students, and in the report cited here, have indicated 13 common > errors in ballot design that can be avoided, and thus improve the ability > of citizens to vote their intent.
> One more item for today is that there are design challenges for people > with disabilities (including elders) beyond the ordinary ones. Two > workshops <http://elections.itif.org/projects/design-workshops/> were > held earlier this year to discuss and propose solutions to issues such as > pre-election information, in-person and remote voting, ballot design. The > sponsor of those workshops (ITIF) and federal level participating agencies > (e.g., NIST among others) are both looking for ways to move toward > nationals standards, while respecting states' rights.
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Lina Srivastava <li...@linasrivastava.com<javascript:> > > wrote:
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