Whitney is passionate about making interactions with government effective and enjoyable, bringing design literacy to elections and other government workers, and on a mission to ensure voter intent through design.<\/p>\n
An authority on gathering user insights to design products where people matter\u2013expertise gained in her work with government, nonprofit, and tech companies\u2013she is the author of three books with practical advice in user experience:\u00a0A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences<\/em><\/a>;\u00a0\u00a0Storytelling for User Experience<\/em><\/a>; and Global UX: Design and Research in a Connected World<\/em>.<\/p>\n In addition to serving as the Executive Director of the Center for Civic Design, Whitney co-created the first course on Election Design for the University of Minnesota Certificate in Election Administration.\u00a0 She serves on advisory boards for Center for Tech and Civic Life, Los Angeles County\u2019s Voting Systems for All People, VotingWorks, and the Participatory Budgeting Project. She holds a master\u2019s degree from The Open University in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whitney is passionate about making interactions with government effective and enjoyable, bringing design literacy to … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":181722,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/249387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speakers"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}