Turning ideas into action: a new toolkit for goal setting in election operations

November 6, 2025

Setting goals in election operations, a practical guide to help election offices move from reflection to action after an election debrief.

A new step-by-step technical guide to building accessible forms in InDesign

September 27, 2025

Our new technical guide walks you through the process of building accessible PDF forms

Sean Wang is the Center for Civic Design’s new Executive Director

September 15, 2025

Sean first joined CCD as Deputy Director in 2024. In addition, we’re thrilled that Whitney Quesenbery, our co-founder and previous Executive Director, will take on the new role of Chief Program Officer.

Form letters that actually inform

September 2, 2025

A detailed description of how we redesigned a form letter for New Hampshire in a way that's clear, informative, and helpful

Testing RCV materials in 7 languages

August 29, 2025

Learn about how King County Elections (KCE) conducted a multilingual usability study with 7 languages for new voting materials

Help voters navigate the polling place with better signage

July 30, 2025

Good signage makes voting easier for everyone. Our new toolkit shows best practices and templates for polling place signage.

Building stronger community relationships

June 30, 2025

Effective voter outreach depends on partnerships. Here are 3 ways that we have adapted our work to make projects with partnerships more successful.

Conversation starters to improve your poll worker training

June 3, 2025

Our latest research led to a set of conversation starters — practical questions that election offices can use to reflect on and improve their poll worker training.

Designing election dashboards that inform and build trust

April 18, 2025

Here are a few tips and ideas from the Michigan Voting Dashboard that can help you decide how to display election data you’re working with.

Build a great election website with this new guide

March 11, 2025

Our new guide, Designing Election Websites, is meant for busy election officials who want the essential information to improve a website (or build one from scratch).

2024 Annual Report

January 27, 2025

There is so much to be proud of in 2024. All eyes were on election officials during this presidential election, and they more than came through. Read about our work in 2024 in our Annual Report.

Michigan Voting Dashboard

January 27, 2025

In 2024, we worked with the elections and technology teams at the Michigan Department of State on the Michigan Voting Dashboard to make election data publicly available before the presidential election.

Help us learn about the challenges and successes of accessible voting

December 20, 2024

We are interviewing people who support voters with disabilities in South Carolina, Virginia, Illinois, and California.

Debrief the election with this new toolkit

November 26, 2024

The brief window after an election is the ideal opportunity to plan for future success. Debrief and capture wins, challenges, and big thoughts now while they are top of mind with this new toolkit.

Last minute tips to help voters navigate unexpected moments while voting

October 18, 2024

Every last-minute step of preparation during this busy election season helps make sure all voters are able to cast their ballots as they expect.

Say thank you to your election hero with ready-to-print postcards

October 10, 2024

Election officials do so much, often with limited resources. So we designed a postcard that celebrates the many hats that they wear.

Putting voters in control of ranked choice voting

October 7, 2024

It's harder for voters to verifying their rankings on a ballot marking device. Two design features can solve this design challenge.

This Disability Voting Rights Week, visit AccessibleVoting.net

September 12, 2024

AccessibleVoting.net now hosts the National Coalition of Accessible Voting (NCAV) Voting Access Guide for Election Officials, among other updates for 2024.

Too much info? Break it into bites, snacks, and meals

August 30, 2024

Bite-snack-meal is a tool to help you organize and sequence the information you want to share with voters. Learn more about what it is and how you can use bite-snack-meal in your voter communication materials.

Better design = more culturally responsive voter outreach

July 18, 2024

We recently wrapped up a research project focused on how visual design can help create more culturally responsive voter materials....

Maryland’s new election website speaks directly to voters

June 5, 2024

The Maryland State Board of Elections launched a new webpage as part of an outreach campaign for the 2024 elections that shares election information in a fresh, exciting way