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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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    • Does your startup need a designer co-founder?
      Enrique Allen runs down the characteristics of designer founders, scenarios where design is particularly important, and how to spot designer founders in the wild.
      www.designstaff.…
    • 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…
    • Students Give Kimberly-Clark a Lesson in Design Thinking
      Inspiring read about RISD students who identified sustainable new concepts and scalable designs for the excessive waste produced by the most widely used sterilization wrap on the market.
      www.greenbiz.com…
    • 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…
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  • External Resources (cont.)

    • 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…
    • How Starbucks Transformed Coffee From A Commodity Into A $4 Splurge | Fast Company
      An interview with Stanley Hainsworth, whose creative vision for Starbucks steered the brand to becoming a cultural icon.
      www.fastcompany.…
    • The Future of Education
      Creating the Future of Education and Work wants to help educators foster creativity and conceptual thinking in schools.
      www.swiss-miss.c…
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