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CROSSING PARTY LINES INC

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Volunteer UI/UX Designer — AI Apps for Better Human Communication

Crossing Party Lines is looking for a UI/UX designer to volunteer with their Apps and Agents team. This team is developing AI-powered applications to help people communicate more effectively across differences. The volunteer will help turn AI prototypes into user-friendly experiences. The team's work began in the political sphere, helping people with different views talk openly and respectfully. Now, they are bringing this approach to other settings like homes and workplaces. The volunteer will work on designing interfaces for conversation practice, coaching, and other applications. The ideal candidate has experience with UX design and is interested in human-centered AI and civic technology. They should be able to simplify complicated processes and work collaboratively with people from different backgrounds. What You'll Do - Help define user journeys and interaction flows for new AI-powered applications - Review existing prototypes and identify usability problems - Create wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes - Help establish a consistent visual and interaction system across multiple apps - Work with developers, testers, writers, and subject-matter experts - Participate in usability testing and use findings to improve designs - Help think carefully about accessibility, inclusion, trust, and emotional safety Requirements & Qualifications - Experience with UX design, product design, interaction design, or user research - Ability to simplify complicated processes without stripping away important nuance - Interest in human-centered AI, civic technology, communication, conflict transformation, education, or behavioral design - Ability to give and receive constructive feedback in a collaborative environment - Comfort working with people who hold a wide range of political and social views Benefits - A meaningful role in shaping innovative AI products from an early stage - Opportunities to create portfolio-worthy product and UX work - Experience designing for conversational AI and emotionally sensitive interactions - Collaboration with developers, writers, testers, and experts in depolarization and communication - A chance to influence tools that may eventually be used in homes, workplaces, nonprofit organizations, and public life - Professional references based on the quality and consistency of your contribution 2. Prepare your portfolio and any relevant experience or skills you want to highlight. 3. Click the Apply button below to submit your application.

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Volunteer App Tester — Help Improve Innovative AI Communication Tools

Crossing Party Lines is recruiting volunteer app testers to help improve their AI-powered communication tools. These tools are designed to help people communicate more constructively across differences. The role involves testing various applications, noticing where they succeed or fail, and providing feedback to make them clearer and more useful. The tools developed by Crossing Party Lines aim to address affective and cognitive depolarization by combining generative-AI technology with proprietary communication skills and teaching methods. The goal is to bring these tools beyond political conversations and into everyday life. As a volunteer app tester, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team and will have the opportunity to influence products while they are still being shaped. You will also gain experience testing generative-AI products and conversational agents, and will receive professional references based on the quality and consistency of your work. What You'll Do - Test early prototypes and more developed applications - Follow structured testing scenarios - Explore applications freely to uncover unexpected problems - Test different inputs, viewpoints, tones, and conversational situations - Document bugs, confusing instructions, awkward interactions, and inconsistent behavior - Evaluate whether AI responses feel accurate, neutral, respectful, and helpful - Suggest improvements to wording, workflow, coaching, and user experience - Participate in team discussions about what should be changed - Retest revised versions to see whether problems have been resolved - Help develop repeatable testing criteria for future applications Requirements & Qualifications - Notice details and enjoy figuring out why something does or does not work - Can describe problems clearly and specifically - Are willing to try unfamiliar tools and experiment with different approaches - Can separate personal preference from a genuine usability or product issue - Are interested in communication, psychology, conflict resolution, education, civic life, product development, or responsible AI - Are comfortable engaging with perspectives different from your own - Can provide candid feedback respectfully - Are dependable and able to complete agreed-upon testing assignments - Experience in software quality assurance, usability testing, product management, research, education, facilitation, or communications is helpful but not required Benefits - Early access to innovative AI-based communication applications - Experience testing generative-AI products and conversational agents - An opportunity to influence products while they are still being shaped - Practice identifying and documenting usability and AI-quality issues - Collaboration with a multidisciplinary team - Exposure to CPL’s communication and depolarization frameworks - Professional references based on the quality and consistency of your work 2. Prepare to contribute approximately 8 or more hours per week, with flexibility in scheduling. 3. Click the Apply button below to submit your application.

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Volunteer Technical Communicator — AI Apps and Conversational Agents

Crossing Party Lines is seeking a Volunteer Technical Communicator for their Apps and Agents team, which is developing AI-powered applications and conversational agents to help people communicate more effectively across differences. The volunteer will help make complex AI-powered tools understandable, engaging, and usable by translating complex ideas into clear language. This role is part of a team that has been helping people with different political views talk openly and understand one another for nearly a decade. The team is now combining the latest generative-AI capabilities with their proprietary intellectual property to create tools for workplaces, families, organizations, and everyday relationships. The volunteer will work on creating a clear and consistent bridge between the subject-matter expertise, developers, and users of the applications. This will involve both technical writing and product communication to help users understand the products without feeling overwhelmed by technical or academic language. The role can be shaped somewhat around the volunteer's strengths, and they will have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects, including practice applications, AI coaches, and conversational role-play tools. The ideal candidate will be able to write clearly and accurately, ask questions that reveal missing information, and preserve nuance while making language easier to understand. They will also be comfortable receiving detailed feedback and revising collaboratively, and be able to remain neutral and respectful when writing about contested issues. What You'll Do Write or refine app instructions, onboarding text, prompts, tooltips, help content, and explanatory messages Help maintain consistent terminology and voice across multiple products Write testing instructions, FAQs, setup guides, and internal process documents Help explain the products to potential volunteers, partners, funders, and users Collaborate with designers, developers, testers, and subject-matter experts Identify places where jargon, abstraction, or excessive complexity may prevent understanding Requirements & Qualifications Ability to write clearly, accurately, and with a strong sense of audience Knowledge of how to ask questions that reveal missing information Ability to preserve nuance while making language easier to understand Comfort with receiving detailed feedback and revising collaboratively Interest in AI, communication, education, product development, psychology, conflict transformation, or civic life Ability to write in a warm, natural voice rather than relying on corporate or academic jargon Ability to remain neutral and respectful when writing about contested issues and different political views Experience in technical writing, UX writing, instructional design, product documentation, communications, curriculum development, journalism, editing, or content strategy is helpful Familiarity with software development or generative AI is useful but not required Benefits Experience documenting and communicating innovative generative-AI products Opportunities to create strong writing samples and portfolio material Meaningful influence over products at an early stage of development Collaboration with developers, designers, testers, and communication specialists Exposure to practical frameworks for depolarization and constructive communication The opportunity to help translate years of nonprofit knowledge into tools with broad potential Professional references based on the quality and consistency of your contribution 2. Prepare your application materials, including any relevant experience or writing samples. 3. Click the Apply button below to submit your application.

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