One more post on voting, but this tome about UX design. The new optical scanners have an awful user experience. Two things really stuck out. First, it was entirely unclear whether to insert one’s ballot face up or face down (or either). There should be a huge sample right on the feeding slot to show the proper orientation. Second, for the machine to just say “Ballot Processed” is really disconcerting. It requires too high a level of trust that the machine did in fact properly scan and was correctly loaded with information about the ballot. It doesn’t seem asking too much to have a screen that shows the candidates the scanner thinks you voted for and then have a “approve” and a “cancel” button. At least for me that would substantially improve my comfort level that my vote was properly counted. Even better would be to have the machine after the confirmation print a unique key that I could use later to look up my vote over the web.
One more post on voting, but this tome about UX design. The new optical scanners have an awful user experience. Two things really stuck out. First, it was entirely unclear whether to insert one’s ballot face up or face down (or either). There should be a huge sample right on the feeding slot to show the proper orientation. Second, for the machine to just say “Ballot Processed” is really disconcerting. It requires too high a level of trust that the machine did in fact properly scan and was correctly loaded with information about the ballot. It doesn’t seem asking too much to have a screen that shows the candidates the scanner thinks you voted for and then have a “approve” and a “cancel” button. At least for me that would substantially improve my comfort level that my vote was properly counted. Even better would be to have the machine after the confirmation print a unique key that I could use later to look up my vote over the web.
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Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
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