Dana Chisnell is an elections geek and a UX research nerd (her words) who has trained thousands of people, including government workers, to test their designs. But what she really loves is giving design literacy to the world. She’s the lead on a project to develop a series of Field Guides To Ensuring Voter Intent. The Field Guides, originally funded by a Kickstarter project, are designed to be quick, easy, accessible help for American election officials to do the best possible design. She won 2 MacArthur grants to expand the Field Guides Series. She wrote Handbook of Usability Testing, Second Edition with Jeff Rubin. She’s a co-founder with Whitney Quesenbery of the Center for Civic Design (civicdesign.org), which has loaned her to the United States Digital Service (whitehouse.gov/us-digital-service).

Matthew Weaver has spent his entire life taking things apart, understanding how they work, and fixing them. Academically, he’s studied graphic design and holds a degree in computer science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Professionally, he’s networked small communities in the Rocky Mountains, was a member and lead of the team responsible for operating Google web search during a nine-year career there, and helped rescue healthcare.gov. Personally, he takes music, literature, film and food very seriously. He is honored to serve his country as the Rogue Leader of the Digital Service at Veterans Affairs.