Design Club

For our Reboot project, funded by Grant for the Web, we worked on creating best-in-class design education and expanding our global reach.

Uma and Ken from Multiverse ran an online design thinking course for apprentices, built with Design Club resources.

Last week, I published a photo in Twitter, and it seems like I caused a storm in the UX world. It was not my intention.

Who fancies trying Coil? We have some free codes to give away — just email hello@designclub.org.uk :)

It’s been a frustrating year. But we’ve made progress. Here’s what we’ve been working on — and plans for the rest of 2021.

The children have been prototyping social apps. We looked at how these apps make money and the implications for users.

We’re nearing the end of “Design Club: Reboot”, our project funded by Grant for the Web. Here’s a progress report.

I’m mentoring at a weekend Design Club for 8–12 year olds in Dagenham. Here are six things I’ve learnt.

From mood jars to scavenger hunts, here are 14 things we did to keep children engaged during our remote Design Club.

Learnings after our remote Design Club earlier this year at West London Free School

Our plan to make Design Club fit for the future and more impactful — and how you can help!

The club started on 9 February and runs for 6 weeks over Zoom. I’m going to try to keep a diary. [FINAL UPDATE: 23 March]

Matt and Bailey from Elsewhen ran a Design Club project at School 21, delivered remotely via Google Meet.

Notes from our recent virtual Meetup and developments in our thinking on how we might deliver Design Club remotely.

We’re thrilled to announce we’ve been selected as a “Spark” grantee by this new fund. We’ll be experimenting with video content and more!

Design Club mentor Bianca Hollis reflects on her key takeaways from running a series of Design Club workshops over Zoom

Running a club remotely (via video) is different from face to face for many reasons. Here the key things you need to consider

Take children through a design project in a few short video workshops. Bianca Hollis shares her tips on running a successful session on…

The first of three posts where our fab mentor Bianca Hollis shares practical tips to run Design Club activities remotely

Preparing for a reboot in January 2021

We hosted our first virtual Meetup on 9 April. Thanks to all mentors who joined. We discussed creative ideas, support and safeguarding.

Organisations are having to re-orientate in order to reach the people who matter to them. Design Club is no different.

Help children design and prototype an app using pen and paper. This simple project works through the basics of design thinking.

I want to help young people engage with design thinking and discover more creative career paths, and promote tech for girls.