Design isn’t neutral — it’s decisive.
On Brave UX, we talked about something subtle but critical: how poor typography in election ballots can lead to real-world confusion.
This clip from the episode has been quietly resonating — thanks to Brendan Jarvis for surfacing this moment.
🎧 Full episode here → https://youtu.be/1WcXHhvMhls?si=v6mzbU2sdzZ3_JoX
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@dredmorbius This is right up my alley! I'm an engineer with background in digital signal processing, and what I concluded several years ago is that elections are DSP systems. This has lots of implications, but one of them is that dithering can fix a lot of problems by injecting randomness.
I wrote up my work here.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1liNMcOWwVSRLHesoYCfjs4GH0QLBGCjB/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114516458166061722132&rtpof=true&sd=true
It may be a little dense, but would love your thoughts.
Abstract Elections are presented as analogous to digital signal processing systems, sampling continuous-time analog inputs at regular intervals and processing them into a discrete-time quantized signal. Due to how quickly the preferences of voters can change relative to how often elections are he...
Thomas GIRARD, MA, CDP
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