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.

How can we make requirements clear?

September 22, 2017

We look behind the scenes in The Case of Must v. Shall

Civic designing: tools and templates

September 15, 2017

Free (or super cheap) tools and resources for every part of election administration, from voter information to how you make decisions about voting systems.

Poll workers and empowerment

September 14, 2017

How do you get poll workers with a range of attitudes to deliver a safe, secure, free, and open election for you? Train them. Test them. Trust them.

Modernizing voting system guidelines and testing

September 13, 2017

Updated voting system standards take a big step forward.

Strategies for recruiting poll workers

September 12, 2017

Tips from recent conversations with election officials from California to Colorado to Indiana to Virginia

Partnering is powerful

September 10, 2017

We formed the Center for Civic Design 4 years ago this week. To all the town, county, state, and federal election officials we've already worked with, thank you!

Meeting voters’ language needs

August 16, 2017

We're learning about supporting voters with low English proficiency. Some of the lessons we've learned so far from research about voter guides.

Answering voters’ questions: what’s on the ballot, and the mechanics of voting

August 7, 2017

An interactive practice ballot is a secret weapon. When people get the chance to see what the ballot looks like, check out what contests and questions are on it, and they get to actually practice marking the ballot, they’re more committed to voting.