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Inclusive Leadership in Design
Inclusive Leadership in Design
I recently had my friend and colleague, Daniel Hagerty share a video with me on Inclusive Leadership. The speaker in…
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Voting Solutions for All People
Voting Solutions for All People
Another great report from the Wall Street Journal outlining the Voting Solutions for All People (VSAP) project we have…
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Saving Democracy
Saving Democracy
A feature on NBC News on the team I have been honored to be a member of. Coming to a Los Angeles voting center near you…
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Event Farm : Not Another Face in the Crowd
Event Farm : Not Another Face in the Crowd
Some great press for Event Farm! Forbes reviewed the session at the 2017 Worldz "Not Another Face in the Crowd"…
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Loot Crate • Personified
Loot Crate • Personified
The Challenge The challenge that was issued to me in July by Loot Crate CEO Chris Davis was clear: "Can you look at…
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UX Artifacts that stand on their own
UX Artifacts that stand on their own
As UX professionals, we have an unprecedented array of tool and tricks at our disposal. The sheer number of SaaS…
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Who's driving the bus?
Who's driving the bus?
I had a conversation with Blake Fullmer this weekend, a man who is both a Developer & a professional Opera singer…
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Apple : You Kinda Broke Time
Apple : You Kinda Broke Time
A request from a fan to improve the UX of this native iOs function. My sincere apologies to the specific designers…
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Sneeze Guards = UX Rage
Sneeze Guards = UX Rage
OK look, I understand that there is a need to protect the contents of a salad bar from the sometimes drippy faces of…
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Scratch that, reverse it.
Scratch that, reverse it.
Designers who worked for me back in 2001 (at the peak of the dotcom boom) might remember something I used to say a lot…
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I can’t change the world, but I can change my mind. Been totally refactoring my relationship to AI - apps incoming. Please stand by…
I can’t change the world, but I can change my mind. Been totally refactoring my relationship to AI - apps incoming. Please stand by…
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Donald Trump and the Republican Party are trying to dismantle ActBlue—one of the most critical parts of the Democratic Party's infrastructure…
Donald Trump and the Republican Party are trying to dismantle ActBlue—one of the most critical parts of the Democratic Party's infrastructure…
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How exactly does Product Design collaborate in a news organization to craft a high quality, engaging mobile app? Please, watch my design team explain…
How exactly does Product Design collaborate in a news organization to craft a high quality, engaging mobile app? Please, watch my design team explain…
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LA County’s Totally New Voting Experience
NBC Los Angeles
See publicationFor all my friends, family, and random strangers who find out I worked on the new LA County voting system... this interview with Dean Logan answers many of the questions I’ve been getting recently asking “How is this different than the Iowa app?!”
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Changing the Way We Vote
Wall Street Journal
See publicationThe Wall Street Journal's Emily Glazer explains how Los Angeles County is remodeling its voting experience for the county's 5.4 million voters during its 2020 election debut. Voting changes could extend across the U.S.
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Has Los Angeles County just reinvented voting?
NBC News
See publicationFor 2020, the nation's biggest voting district decided to grow its own voting machines and change the meaning of "Election Day." The reviews are glowing.
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Voting Solutions for All People
Los Angeles County
See publicationThe Voting Solutions for All People (VSAP) was developed by the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) in 2009 to address an aging voting system and an increasingly large and complex electorate. The project seeks a collaborative approach to voting system design that will put voters at the center and maximize stakeholder participation.
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The Tomorrow Button
Medium.com
See publication"The big button should do what I want…" An exploration into a UX challenge that was issued after too much wine.
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Owning Your Place in the Machine
UX Mastery - UXmas
See publicationUXmas is a joint effort from the teams at Thirst Studios & UX Mastery. We created the site partly as a way of giving back to the UX community during the festive season. But mostly we just thought the pun was too good to pass up.
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UX Design & Predictive Anthropology
Medium.com
See publicationSometimes user experience design is a bit like gazing into a cultural crystal ball
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On a Divine Adventure with The Middle Man
First to Know
See publicationThe first bit of press on my science fiction novel. It was great to chat with the folks at "First to Know" about the story. I love having a 'passion project' to balance out my career.
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The Middle Man
Amazon.com
See publicationMy first full length novel. A science fiction story that looks into the question "Who runs Purgatory?"
Projects
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Los Angeles County Voting System
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The Voting Solutions for All People (VSAP) project is a ground up redesign of the voting system for Los Angeles County. The new voting system services 6.5 million registered voters over 4500 sq miles and launches for public use in the 2020 primary election.
The primary goal of a voting system is always election integrity. The machines are all ballot marking devices meaning that no tabulation is done at the machine level. The printed ballots are the source of truth and voters review…The Voting Solutions for All People (VSAP) project is a ground up redesign of the voting system for Los Angeles County. The new voting system services 6.5 million registered voters over 4500 sq miles and launches for public use in the 2020 primary election.
The primary goal of a voting system is always election integrity. The machines are all ballot marking devices meaning that no tabulation is done at the machine level. The printed ballots are the source of truth and voters review their ballots for accuracy before casting. The user experience of the touchscreen interface is intuitive and easy to understand.
All of this and the system is also the most accessible voting system ever developed. Voters need not identify as "disabled" to use accessible features. The system supports voting for the vision impaired, hearing impaired, motor skilled impaired, and even allows voting by using a mouth straw for voters with severe physical challenges.
The Smartmatic team provided complete UX design on the voting interface, hardware and transport design for 35,000 machines, integration with secure closed looped network, and support for 13 different languages.
After an 18 month development cycle, the result is a secure network of ballot marking devices, a fully audit-able paper based ballot, and a new voting solution for the largest county in the world. The Smartmatic team provided the skills and dedication to make a product that does nothing less than facilitate democracy.Other creators -
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Magento.com
Engineering management for the replatform & redesign of Magento.com. Led a team of 3 engineers and worked side-by-side with design, UX, and PM.
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Magento Connect
The largest eCommerce application marketplace in the world. The 2011 launch of Magento Connect took it from a series of pages on the Magento corporate site to a full, free standing experience.
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