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  • Government officials: Get help

    As federal, state and local agencies and departments look for ways to make government more accessible, transparent and efficient, AIGA Design for Democracy can help them achieve their goals.

    Nonprofit and nonpartisan, Design for Democracy assists government in the development of better communications and services-by making information, instructions, forms, websites and service centers easy to find, understand and use. Design for Democracy has access to specialists in information, interaction, environmental and graphic design, as well as experts in usability, plain language, ethnographic research and branding.

    Get design's help for democracy

    Contact Design for Democracy to request assistance for your government agency, department or office, or to participate in our Election Design Fellows program.

    You may also seek skilled, local designers through the AIGA Designer Directory or AIGA Design Jobs board.

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    • Towards an Ethics of Persuasion | UX Magazine
      For the past several years, I've been looking at ideas from psychology we can apply to interaction design—ideas such as curiosity, scarcity, or feedback loops. So I’m often asked this question on the subject of ethics: When is it okay (or not okay) to influence someone’s behavior?
      uxmag.com/articl…
    • Functioning Form: So you Wanna be a Design Strategist? (Part 1)
      After consulting for nearly 9 years, I've come to the conclusion that being a designer doesn't automatically entitle you to the collective benefits of any industry. You have to sell yourself and talents every time you walk into a room. Is that good?
      www.lukew.com/ff…
    • How an Entirely New, Autistic Way of Thinking Powers Silicon Valley
      Reading an interview with Steve Jobs, I came across this quote: “The thing I love about Pixar is that it’s exactly like the LaserWriter.” What? The most successful animation studio in recent memory is “exactly like” a piece of technology from 1985? ... He realized that you needed pattern thinkers to engineer the miracles inside the box and picture thinkers to make what comes out of the box beautiful.
      www.wired.com/op…
    • Sports And Analytics: Innovate With Design Thinking
      www.forbes.com/s…
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    • An Important Time for Design
      Cameron Koczon calls on designers: "We have a new purpose: elevate design and help change the world. Let’s talk about how to do that."
      www.alistapart.c…
    • Return on Influence, the New ROI
      Amy Jo Martin on measuring the "warm metrics" of social media — including engagement levels, viral factors and sentiment analysis.
      blogs.hbr.org/cs…
    • To Win, Integrate Design And Business
      In this excerpt from "The Method Method," founders of the design- and eco-friendly brand explain the value of having creative leadership at the highest ranks of business.
      www.good.is/post…
    • Designers Are The New Drivers Of American Entrepreneurialism
      Bruce Nussbaum: the "growing desire among designers to bring their user focus, strategic vision, iterative methodologies, and propositional thinking to the still-geeky, tech/engineering-centric world of startups promises to be transformative and explosive."
      www.fastcodesign…
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