Designing Good Things

We’re trying out #weeknotes again; short, regular updates on what we’re up to at Good Things Foundation. First, a look back to some big…

Data at Good Things

Social Exclusion: Who, What & Where

Automating the ‘big count’ and breaking down the numbers geographically

Backdating old projects

We’re trying something new: weeknotes. We’re doing a lot of strategic thinking about our organisational Outcomes, and one of the first…

Today, the United Kingdom’s union movement is by and large stagnant. Since its peak in the 1980s, and since the reforms of Britain’s…

At Good Things Foundation we collect, analyse and use a lot of different data. Some are our own sets arising from the surveys we administer…

At the moment we’re riding a wave of UK optimism regarding the active role communities and community organisations can play.

People learn more about money if they spend their own money online.

What the financial capability sector can do to erode the poverty premium.

To micro, to macro, to micro, to macro…

When I think about universal, accessible, inclusive or participatory design, be it in the digital or real world I don’t think about what it…

We just need to learn how to find it

I think a lot about outcomes.

No one ‘delivers policy’.

Avoiding making a professional class of problem solvers

How design adds value to the community sector.

Digital skills is a hot topic right now, and rightly so. Influential reports from McKinsey, the RSA and others have highlighted the…

Key findings from our design sprint on communicating the benefits of digital to older people