Whitney Quesenbery

Center for Civic Design

Whitney Quesenbery is the co-founder and Chief Program Officer of the Center for Civic Design. Back in 2000, someone asked her, “How hard can it be to design a checkbox on a ballot, anyway?” That was the beginning of 25 years of research about creating a voter experience that invites everyone to participate. Plain language, accessibility, and language access are central to CCD's design and research practice.

Whitney has written 3 books — "A Web for Everyone: Designing accessible user experiences", "Storytelling for User Experience", and "Global UX" — to help keep users in mind throughout the creative process. She served on the US Federal Advisory Committee for updating the "Section 508" accessibility regulations.