Codesign

German version available “Social Design deals with socially relevant topics and designs them in a participatory way, i.e. integrates people from society into the design process,” explains Carolin Schreiber, Professor of Social Design, in the video of the closing event of DemenzDinge. The four-year research and model project of the…

A brief guide to understanding the practice and importance of co-design. — ✪ Download the 8.5x11 poster ✪ Download the 12x18 poster Background NYC Opportunity launched the Service Design Studio (SDS) to help spread valuable methodologies that are often underused in government. …

I’ve been involved (to a very tiny percent) in some work we are doing with the LGA and New Local on innovative community engagement and was lucky enough to help facilitate one of the final show n share workshops this week. The Local Government Association, New Local and TPXimpact have…

We currently have a colleague and PhD student in our research group Caring. And Design Research, Yoni Lefévre who is looking at the role of design in facilitating sexuality and intimacy within skilled nursing facilities. It is, of course, seemingly a taboo subject, and she is not the first to…

As a core method of primary user research, co-design is a collaborative and creative process of working with your users and stakeholders in the design process to begin taking the first steps to consolidating user insights within the team and validating potential solutions for a product or service. The co-design…

Designers be designing , developers be developing, PMs be PMing they say. But in reality, we are all working towards solving a problem. And when it comes to product designers, we are the ones bridging the gap between what are we doing? why are we doing it? …

“When we’re all together, nothing is difficult” A- young person on Triangles. Who are we? Rachel Telfer; National Triangles Coordinator Tiffany Horabin; Project Worker on Triangles (and a previous Triangles Participant!) Late last year we began our third Triangles programme titled Triangles 3.0. A Triangle is two young people with lived experience of…

Hi, we’re Tayo, a freelance research and design strategist and Kamna, a portfolio manager at Impact on Urban Health. In this blog series, we’ll be sharing the process of designing and developing a new “Parent Panel” for the Children’s Mental Health team — an experimental model for involving parents in…

Chess is one of the most popular board games in the world. Played between two people, it’s about tactical moves and strategic planning. What makes it interesting however, is that the players can see each other’s moves, which allows them to respond accordingly in virtually limitless combinations. Whether you are…