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Indie Usability Field Guides for Elections
elections, accessibility, usability
A friend, Dana Chisnell, is starting a kickstarter campaign, "Field Guides for Ensuring Voter Intent", to develop and produce a series of design and usability field guides for election officials. Dana, among many other things, is the co-author of the Handbook of Usability Testing we used at Berkeley when I was in IS214 (Needs and Usability Assessment).
The basic idea is that there are a lot of problems in human interaction with voting systems that can be easily avoided by a few smart design choices, low-overhead user testing of ballots, and other kinds of techniques and insights. Dana will spearhead the creation of a number of guides designed for election officials in mind that address common usability problems and techniques for avoiding them.
It looks like a neat project, and I encourage you to back it, if you deem it worthy. For funding levels higher than $30, you get a copy (signed) of each guide they produce... higher levels include hand-made art of a mascot for the project, "Chad Butterfly"... the uppermost levels of funding allow backers to pick an election official of their choosing to receive a consultation with Dana about usability aspects of their election process.
This is a neat example of both civic design and indie usability funding! Bravo! I hope Dana meets and exceeds her funding level!
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