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The Colin McEnroe ShowDoes democracy have a design problem?This hour we talk with experts in ballot design about how to put together a ballot that's accessible to everyone, and all of the things to keep in mind, from font size to the length of candidate's names. Plus, a look at the evolution of ballots throughout history. GUESTS: Whitney Quesenbery: Executive Director of the Center for Civic Design Alicia Cheng: Head of Design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and author of This is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate
2024-10-3149 min
ACB Advocacy UpdateAccessible Voting and Voter EngagementAs we head into the Mid-term elections, Clark and Swatha speak with Rylin Rodgers (Disability Policy Advisor at Microsoft) and Whitney Quesenbery (Executive
Director for the Center for Civic Design) about the work both organizations are doing to make voting accessible for individuals with disabilities. we discuss
the work the Center for Civic Design is doing to make finding accessible voting information easier to access, the work Microsoft is doing in this space
and why corporate engagement is important in voting advocacy, and the idea of democracy being a design problem.
To find out more about the...
2022-10-0636 min
Design To Be ConversationDan Szuc and Josephine Wong: How to use Practice Spotting as a tool to shift cultureIn today's episode, I speak with Dan Szuc and Josephine Wong. Dan is a co-founder and principal at Apogee and co-founder of Make Meaningful Work, as well as the co-founder of UX Hong Kong. He has been involved in the UX field and based in Hong Kong for over 20 years. Dan has lectured about user-centered design globally. He has co-authored three books including Global UX with Whitney Quesenbery, The Usability Kit with Gerry Gaffney and Make Meaningful Work with Josephine Wong. Josephine is a co-founder and principal at Apogee and co-founder of Make Meaningful Work, a...
2022-05-311h 02
The Reorient! PodcastDaniel Szuc and Josephine Wong: Making work meaningfulPublished April 10, 2022Josephine Wong is a co-founder and principal at Apogee and co-founder of Make Meaningful Work, as well as the co-founder of UX Hong Kong.Jo grew up in multicultural Hong Kong, with a Chinese-Burmese father and Chinese-Indonesian mother. She collaborates with global teams conducting research in Cantonese, Mandarin and English.Jo is passionate about the environment, political and economic systems and how we can live healthier and happier lives while not adversely impacting less fortunate people.She co-authored Make Meaningful Work with Daniel Szuc.Daniel Szuc is...
2022-04-1120 min
The Reorient! PodcastEpisode 30/ Full Interview: Daniel Szuc and Josephine Wong on making work meaningfulPublished April 10, 2022Josephine Wong is a co-founder and principal at Apogee and co-founder of Make Meaningful Work, as well as the co-founder of UX Hong Kong.Jo grew up in multicultural Hong Kong, with a Chinese-Burmese father and Chinese-Indonesian mother. She collaborates with global teams conducting research in Cantonese, Mandarin and English.Jo is passionate about the environment, political and economic systems and how we can live healthier and happier lives while not adversely impacting less fortunate people.She co-authored Make Meaningful Work with Daniel Szuc.Daniel Szuc is...
2022-04-101h 09
Digital AccessibilityIt’s Not Magic, It Doesn’t Just Happen with Whitney QuesenberyWhitney Quesenbery talks about her career encompassing user research and the design of vote-casting. She describes the influences for the role-based format of her book A Web for Everyone. Center for Civic DesignA Web for EveryoneMentioned in this episode:Info about Accessibility at Blink
2021-12-1936 min
Brave UX with Brendan Jarvis 🇺🇦Whitney Quesenbery - Strengthening Democracy Through Design
Whitney Quesenbery makes the case for strengthening democracy through design, and shares how she’s making this happen. This episodes includes:
What is Civic Design and why is it important?
How is democracy a design problem?
What impact can good design have on elections?
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Who is Whitney Quesenbery?
Whitney is the co-founder and Director of the Center for Civic Design - a non-profit UX consultancy, working to "ensure voter intent through design". She serves on numerous advisory boards, including The Center for Tech and Civic Life, VotingWorks, and The Participatory Budgeting Project.
And, among many other things, she is also the co-c...
2021-05-241h 23
Design Thinking 101Democracy as a Design Problem with Whitney Quesenbery — DT101 E68Designing Elections? Yes! Whitney Quesenbery and I talk about designing elections, designing in government, and the future of election design. We dive deep into the world of elections, and Whitney’s and the Center for Civic Design’s work to help election officials nationwide design better elections. Show Summary Whitney had two careers before she landed in civic design. She had a professional career in theatre for a number of years before a friend asked her to write a product manual. That led to a shift into writing, and she worked for a number of larg...
2021-04-2755 min
SurfacingWhitney Quesenbery on Election Ballot DesignIn this episode, Lisa and Andy talk to Whitney Quesenbery about elections, the importance of ballot design, the role of election officials, and how she and others at the Center for Civic Design are working to improve the experience of voting. Episode transcript About Whitney Quesenbery: Whitney Quesenbery is the co-founder of the Center for Civic Design. She’s passionate about making interactions with government effective and enjoyable, giving design literacy to elections and other government workers, and on a mission to ensure voter intent through design. Whitney publishes, presents, and tea...
2021-03-1449 min
High Turnout Wide Margins#19 Designing Elections Materials with Whitney QuesenberyWhitney Quesenbery, director and co-founder of the Center for Civic Design, joins Brianna and Eric for a conversation about the effectiveness of good design, the Center's resources, and soliciting feedback from the public.
2021-03-0328 min
User FlowsEP2. Interview with Brian Evans - Accessibility is really about decencyBrian Evans is a resident and worker in the flourishing downtown of Newark, NJ. Receiving a B.S. in Human-Computer Interaction from NJIT he has quickly become a defender of the user, advocate for the differently-abled, and destroyer of churn and red tape. Passionate about designing experiences to help people get control of their financial lives. He holds a CPACC certification from the IAAP, yay acronyms! This means he finds web accessibility to be an important part of his profession. His hobbies include woodworking and writing quirky bios.I worked with Brian at Prudential...
2021-02-2231 min
The Radical AI PodcastVoter Fraud, Media Regulation, and Civic Design with Shannon McGregor and Whitney QuesenberyWhat is the role that technology and social media should play in voting practices? What should global citizens know about the impact that technology being used in the US 2020 election voting processes might have on the future of democracy worldwide?
In this episode we interview Shannon McGregor and Whitney Quesenbery.
Shannon McGregor is an Assistant Professor in the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and a Senior Researcher with UNC’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. Her research addresses the role of social media and their data in political processes, with a foc...
2020-10-2157 min
In the MakingWhy are elections so hard to design well?The fundamental design feature of a democratic society is a citizen's right to vote. But ensuring that every person is able to vote is not as easy as it seems. Everything from how you design a paper ballot, build an electronic terminal, process a mail-in ballot, engineer a public space for private voting, and so on, brings hundreds of complicated design decisions. We look at how design choices are sometimes at odds with political ones.In this episode: Wireframe producer Dominic Girard and host Khoi Vinh learn why designing for elections is a never-ending challenge. ...
2020-09-2129 min
13 LettersCan Disabled Americans Vote?When Whitney Quesenbery talks about elections, she uses phrases like “design tragedy” and “unintended consequences.” Though the number of disabled voters has gone up over the last few decades, the numbers are still scary – and the gap between disabled and non-disabled voters still means millions of uncast votes. A usability and UX leader known for her book “A Web For Everyone,” Quesenbery co-founded the Center for Civic Design to apply UX best practices to promote civic participation. Designing good products by focusing on real human personas and rigorous usability testing in the field, Quesenbery is determined to ensure that not only will...
2020-02-271h 13
Experience by DesignWhitney Quesenbery on Voter Experience and Civic DesignWhitney Quesenbery has had a long and influential career in user experience. The author of three books on UX, Whitney has been involved in a lot of projects aimed at making things more usable. But perhaps none of her work is as important as her co-founding and co-directing the Center for Civic Design. Whitney talks about her unintended introduction into the world of experience design through a theater class, her early work in UX as being user-centric, and how a committee assignment through the Usability Professionals Association led to her life's work on civic design and voting experiences. Listen t...
2020-02-041h 08
Rosenfeld Review PodcastVoting as a Part of Everyday Life: Insights from Whitney QuesenberyIn this 100th episode of the Rosenfeld Review podcast, Lou talks with Whitney Quesenbery, co-author of two Rosenfeld Media books, about her work at Center for Civic Design. Hear about how Whitney works to improve federal voting standards at the procedural and product levels to make voting a part of everyday life.
Learn more about Center for Civic Design: https://civicdesign.org/
Follow their Medium publication: https://medium.com/civic-designing
2019-01-1125 min
CTRL+CLICK CASTDesigning for People Struggling with Mental Health with Francis RowlandCompassion and perspective. These are two elements that lead design toward a more accessible and inclusive future, says Senior UX Architect Francis Rowland. We discuss how inclusive design principles help audiences with mental health struggles while improving everyone’s user experience.
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Show Notes:
Mind UK locator
NHS mental health support locations
Alastair Somerville
Misuability worksheets
A Web for Everyone by Sarah Horton / Whitney Quesenbery
Microsoft's "Respecting Focus" booklet
Inclusive Design To...
2018-10-2550 min
RCV ClipsDesigning Ranked Choice Voting for VotersWhitney Quesenbery of the Center for Civic Design talks to us about CCD's work on ranked choice voting usability: designing RCV election materials for the everyday voter.
Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AW667NkB87ZQc8Qbepm50nzK-bgqgZzT/view?usp=sharing
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- RCV Usability Reports and Materials: https://www.rcvresources.org/reports
- 2018 Symposium Recordings: https://www.rcvresources.org/2018-symposium
- Center for Civic Design: https://civicdesign.org/
2018-05-2417 min
The UIE PodcastNarrative Virality: Changing Course from a Simple StoryStorytelling is an essential form of human communication. You likely have a favorite story, something really memorable. The more that story is told and retold, the further it travels and the more influence it gains. A good story can be infectious.
Stories can also come from unexpected places. LaiYee Ho is the Head of Research at Wink and joins us for this episode. Early in Wink’s research practice one story in particular resonated with the team that was uncovered during an in-home visit, the story of Dominic and Donna. That story spread throughout the organization and fundamentally changed the wa...
2017-08-0323 min
Non Breaking Space ShowWhitney Quesenbery — Design as a Civic ResponsibilityWhitney 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.
2017-04-1100 min
Non Breaking Space ShowWhitney Quesenbery — Design as a Civic ResponsibilityWhitney 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.
2017-04-1140 min
Non Breaking Space ShowWhitney Quesenbery — Design as a Civic ResponsibilityWhitney 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.
This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by:
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2017-04-1140 min
The eLearning Coach PodcastELC 028: Make Accessibility Part Of Your Design ProcessYou may think that accessible eLearning design is only for people with disabilities. Actually, accessible learning designs are for diverse groups, such as people who are limited to using low bandwidth, people who may not be fluent in the language, as well as people who are using a mobile phone to access the Internet.
In this conversation with accessibility and usability specialists Sarah Horton and Whitney Quesenbery, they explain how all users win when we design for accessibility first. And how Universal Design is the path that provides the best access to digital products for the widest audience. We can...
2015-11-0535 min
UXRadioWeb Design for Everyone with Whitney QuesenberyIn this episode we are pleased to introduce you to Whitney Quesenbery who has contributed impressive value to the field of user experience and research. She's written three books, the last entitled "A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences, with Sarah Horton. this book builds accessibility into every part of a web site or app design so that everyone can use it. She is also dedicated to usability in civic life and has worked with a number of notable organizations like Pearson, National Library of Medicine, and the National Cancer Institute to name a few.
2015-08-3121 min
A Podcast For EveryoneResearching Daily LifeAccessibility is often focused on how to design and build digital products or physical spaces. But understanding the people with disabilities who will use those products is just as important. Enter ethnography and the importance of research that goes “face to face” with real people in the real world.
2015-01-2332 minA Podcast For EveryoneAccessible WordPressWordPress powers over 25 million sites with more than 14 billion pages viewed each month, making it one of the most popular web publishing platforms. Imagine if every one of those sites was accessible. Joe O’Connor has been a leader in making that happen, through the WordPress accessibility team which works from the inside to make WordPress into a web publishing platform for everyone.
2014-10-0821 minA Podcast For EveryoneHTML5 AccessibilityWeb accessibility takes place on a foundation of technologies, the most common of which are developed and maintained by the Worldwide Web Consortium, or W3C. Its success is dependent on how well these underlying technologies support accessible user experiences. Fortunately for us, people like Steve Faulkner devote much of their time to ensure technology specifications, such as HTML5, include the hooks that make it possible to build an accessible and enjoyable user experience for everyone.
2014-08-2044 min
UX Discovery Session PodcastDS031 :: Whitney Quesenbery of Center for Civic DesignSubscribe to the podcast using: iTunes | Stitcher | SoundCloud
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Links / topics mentioned:
Dana Chisnell
The Future of California Elections (FOCE)
Lighting designer
Laurie Anderson
A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experience (Rosenfeld Media, 2014)
Sarah Horton
Responsive Web Design
Global UX: Design and Research in a Connected World (Morgan Kauffman, 2012)
Daniel Szu...
2014-06-0723 min
The UX InternWhitney QuesenberyWhitney Quesenbery is a UX Researcher, speaker, and a three time author. She is co-director of the Center for Civic Design which improves government by improving voting design. In this episode, she talks about her background in theater and storytelling, and how both relate to UX. We also discuss personas and the proper place of accessibility in UX Design.
2014-06-0200 minA Podcast For EveryoneAccessibility Research MethodsAccessibility research can help us better understand how people with disabilities use the web and what we in product design and development can do to make that experience more successful and enjoyable. However, accessibility research is often carried out in academia. The valuable insights gained through research are shared and built upon among scholars, but often do not make their way into the practice of people who are designing and building digital products and services.
2014-05-0937 minA Podcast For EveryoneStructured NegotiationsIf you work in user experience or accessibility, you probably spend part of your time on advocacy–making the case for a new design idea or a new way of working. Lawsuits are the ultimate way to get two sides to come to an agreement, but it’s also an extremely confrontational style of advocacy. A more collaborative process might be a better way to reach your goal with an agreement that is a win for everyone.
2014-04-1722 minA Podcast For EveryoneDiscussing CVAAIf you work in media broadcasting or telecommunications you have probably heard of the U.S. legislation called CVAA, shorthand for the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act. This law, signed by President Obama in October 2010, seeks to ensure that accessibility requirements keep pace with advances in communication technologies.
2014-04-0424 minA Podcast For EveryoneAccessibility Easy ChecksSharron Rush heads the Easy Checks project at the Web Accessibility Initiative. These simple steps help you get an idea of whether a site meets some of the basics for good accessibility, without any special technology or tools. She joins Whitney Quesenbery for this episode of A Podcast for Everyone to answer some of these questions.
2014-03-2018 minA Podcast For EveryoneIntroducing A Podcast for EveryoneIn this premiere episode of A Podcast for Everyone, Sarah Horton and Whitney Quesenbery speak with UIE's Adam Churchill about the book that inspired the podcast, and give a preview of what they will be talking about in upcoming episodes.
2014-03-0622 min
Simply AccessiblePlain language & usable accessibility: Whitney QuesenberyA modern view of accessibility leans towards it being part of User Experience. Our own Derek Featherstone talks with Whitney Quesenbery, a UX researcher about her sessions at AccessU about usability testing with people with disabilities and plain language.
2013-05-0300 min
The SpoolCastWhitney Quesenbery - The Characteristics of Effective PersonasIt’s impossible to design something if you don’t know who you’re designing for. Developing personas through user research is a great way to create a portrait of your users. But once you have your personas, what do you do with them? That’s a question Whitney Quesenbery says she encounters more and more lately.
2012-07-2019 min
UXpod - User Experience PodcastGlobal UX: An interview with Whitney QuesenberyGerry Gaffney interviews Whitney Quesenbery. For a transcript of this and other episodes, visit www.uxpod.com.
2011-08-0228 min
2007-05-1900 min