I love voting. Every time I get a ballot I find myself practically overwhelmed with giddiness. I love the idea of being able to throw out “the man” every few years.

I am fortunate to live in a state with very high voter turn out. Still every year, at least 20% of the eligible voters simply don’t show up to the polls. To me this is unconscionable. Who are these people. Is there some way these people can be punished?

With tongue firmly planted in cheek some creative individuals have taken some logical steps to deal with the non-voters among us. (Since this is a little racier than the usual blog material, I’ll put the rest into the extended entry.)

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Here is a snippet from a recent email exchange I had with a member of my wife’s family. I don’t usually make private conversations public, but this really does represent how I feel.

I recently ran across a great read on Skeuomorphs. It is germane to me as my chosen field is always grasping for metaphors when presenting fairly complicated choice or functionality to users. It’s worth a read.

Anyone want to take a crack at pronouncing skeuomorphs?

IMHO, choosing the right metaphor is the key to the user interface more than anything else. In a complex multi-metaphor product, extending the right metaphor is the key to usability.

I came across the link courtesy of interconnected and Ole Eichhorn.