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Democracy is a Design Problem
March 4, 2020 at 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm PST
Dana Chisnell
Dana Chisnell
About the Speaker
Dana Chisnell relentlessly works across government pushing teams to sincerely care about the needs of the people they’re serving through and by design. She does this by asking hard questions to help teams know whether they’re working on solving the right problems and solving the problems right.
Dana brings professional design practices to thousands of election officials every year through presentations and workshops on how to improve ballots, voter guides, web sites, and other election materials to ensure voter intent. Her team at the Center for Civic Design was the first to map the experience of American voters.
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Democracy is a Design Problem
Dana Chisnell, Center for Civic Design
Every great designed experience starts with the stories of individual humans. At the Center for Civic Design, Dana Chisnell and her team collected thousands of stories from U.S. voters over five years. The stories revealed two massive gaps in the process.
First, people who administer elections and voters have very different mental models of the process of voting. The second gap was between privileged voters and burdened voters. These gaps explained why it’s harder than it should be to vote in the U.S. and showed that policies meant to make things better had unintended consequences that actually make it worse.
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2019 Speaker Series: Smart Stuff
Smart Stuff
Alternative Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence & Augmented InteractionsThis year we explore the opportunities and challenges alternative interfaces, artificial intelligence, and augmented interactions bring to our futures.
AI seems to be everywhere. It is an acronym fraught with implications and possibilities. We have an idea of what it means, but how do our smart devices know what we want? Who taught my car to parallel park? Is my home spying on me? It’s all very confusing. This year CHIFOO explores the opportunities and challenges alternative interfaces, artificial intelligence and augmented interactions bring to our futures. We will take a deep dive into how smart devices, cars, and homes are changing our culture and even us, while exploring the interactions this new tech makes possible. The possibilities are exciting, inspiring, and at times unexpected. As professionals dealing with communication, interaction, and results we are at the center of this vortex of change, given the charge to provide solid solutions for an uncertain world. We are empowered by these new tools yet challenged by them as well. As the ones responsible for using it all, we must get up to speed on it all quickly.
This speaker series will explore the various ways these themes are playing out in our lives now while determining the potential for the future by examining specific applications of each. By understanding more about what the potential of how to best use the tools, we can provide better solutions in our own work, and create a more friendly world. Please join us for this exciting series.
Please note: CHIFOO wants to make sure that each meeting is a great experience for everyone. If you need an accommodation to help you better enjoy CHIFOO meetings and events please let our CHIFOO Programs Chair know how we can help a few days prior to CHIFOO event.
2019 Speakers and Events
Rachel Beth Egenhoefer
Rachel Beth Egenhoefer
University of San Francisco
About the Speaker
Rachel Beth Egenhoefer (she/her) is a design educator, sustainability researcher, systems leader, critical maker who uses design as a tool for social change. She is a Professor in Design at the University of San Francisco, where she teaches courses in sustainable design, systems thinking, design activism and community engaged learning. Egenhoefer is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design (2017 & 2019) and the moderator of AIGA SF’s Compostmodern series.
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Dana Chisnell
Dana Chisnell
About the Speaker
Dana Chisnell relentlessly works across government pushing teams to sincerely care about the needs of the people they’re serving through and by design. She does this by asking hard questions to help teams know whether they’re working on solving the right problems and solving the problems right.
Dana brings professional design practices to thousands of election officials every year through presentations and workshops on how to improve ballots, voter guides, web sites, and other election materials to ensure voter intent. Her team at the Center for Civic Design was the first to map the experience of American voters.