Electioneering : Ballot Reform Book Review

How to Fix a Ballot: What voting-booth materials look like is almost as important as who’s running

Newsweek took a look at “Design for Democracy: Ballot + Election Design” in this article. Nice to see, however, that our projects are still working on topics that where this book stops short, namely web design and electronic voting. Apparently only 4 pages devoted to these topics.

“There are two significant areas that are glossed over, however: Web design and electronic voting…Fair enough, but it’s shortsighted not to explore the unique complexities of information flow and hierarchy on Web sites and touchscreens with the same care and attention spent here on printed material. In successful online or electronic projects graphic design is inseparable from interactive design—”human factors” (industryspeak for how a user pokes around an electronic interface) are, at the very least, as important as what font an art director picks.”