Our team
The Civic Design team brings expertise in UX — user research and usability testing, plain language, accessibility, experience in designing forms, web, applications, and services — to the challenges of making it easy for everyone to vote.
Civic Design Fellow
The Civic Design Fellowship is an opportunity for an early-career professional in UX or an adjacent field to develop their superpowers and take a step towards a career in civic design and research.
Partners
In addition to our core staff, we work with design and research partners at other organizations to extend the skills and expertise we bring to each project we take on.
Oxide is the civic-minded brand & design consultancy of Drew Davies. Oxide is an ongoing design partner with CCD, collaborating on projects including the innovative Field Guides to Ensuring Voter Intent, voter registration forms for the State of New York, the Anywhere Ballot, and design of voter guides for the Future of California Elections.
CCD and the Center for Tech and Civic Life work closely on a many projects to reimagine elections. Together we produced ElectionTools.org, an online collection of free resources to help election officials improve the voter experience. It was developed by, with, and for election officials.
The Elections Group is a consulting firm run by former election administrators that provides subject-matter expertise and materials to local, state and federal organizations.
Kathryn Summers and her students in Information and Interaction Design and User Research and Eye Tracking Lab have collaborated with the Center for Civic Design on many projects including the Anywhere Ballot, research on vote-by-mail envelopes, and projects in Maryland.
Board of Directors
Advisory Committee
Our advisory committee includes some of the smartest people we know, who can help us think about aspects of elections outside of our expertise.
Alumni
Whether they joined CCD for a few months to work on one project or stayed for a few years, we are proud to have worked with some of the best and brightest civic researchers and designers in the field.