Designing a better ballot
Written by on August 25th, 2008 in Uncategorized.
“How Design Can Save Democracy” is AIGA’s attempt to identify common design problems in election ballots and offer improvements.
Problem (excerpt)
Solution (excerpt)
Is it an improvement? Sure.
But the real crime here is how terrible the original one is. Looks like a bunch of lawyers trying to figure out Quark. It’s tough to have much faith in your government’s ability to solve truly complicated challenges when it seems so inept at dealing with relatively simple issues. Hasn’t this been a known problem for eight years now?!
It’d also be interesting to see what ballots look like in other parts of the world.
Update: Julien links to this can’t miss ballot used in Quebec.
Source: Signal vs. Noise
Original Article: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1215-designing-a-better-ballot