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Relating Systems Thinking and Design

How can we tell if we’re making a difference? The thorny questions around understanding and communicating impact, results or outcomes…

The information architecture of ethics

A dozen interviews can be more useful than thousands of responses to a questionnaire.

Lately, I’ve noticed a lot more ambient enthusiasm for research among both early stage start-ups and established organizations. Businesses…

Users switch between desktop and mobile seamlessly—so why do we study them in a silo? Here are a few qual research tactics that'll help you uncover the complete digital picture.

Great source of DO's and DON'Ts when designing for all #inclusion #designforall #a11y #accessibilitymatters... 11 comments on LinkedIn

Information and subscription on http://www.usievents.comMike Monteiro run Mule Design Studio. He came to USI to talk about moral responsibility in its job.De...

A central resource for best practices in service design to support public servants and help spread service design methods across New York City government.

The archetypal image of my industry is a designer looking pensive in front of a wall full of post-it notes.

What does it mean to design for social change? For decades designers have tried to push the profession into more humanitarian causes with varying success. In 1964, for example, the designer Ken Garland along with 20 other designers, critics, and students, published First Things First, a manifesto ca

An intro to Social Design (or whatever it’s called)

By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.

For public servants who are designing, procuring or managing human-centred design projects.

How we transformed our Agile process to include research and design

Customer Journey Maps are a visual story about how people interact with your brand. They help brands gain a deep understanding of their customers and act as a bridge between business and buyers.In a single illustration, the journey map aims to capture the entire customer experience. No small task.But if you type “customer journey map” […]

Practice guide: Kano Model

My last Google search of ‘co-design’ turned up a whopping 14,470,000,000 results. I see the language of co-design littered through strategic and operational plans, policy documents, royal commission statements and promises.

Cards for Humanity is a practical tool for inclusive design. Deal the cards to get a random person and their needs. Your challenge is the work out how to design for this person.

How to share UX research findings with stakeholders in a way that inspires action and allows research to have impact.

Last week, I read the latest of a dozen or so blog posts I’ve come across trashing personas or user interviews or customer journeys or jobs…

Start with the question, and all else will follow

A complete guide of all time favourite UX research techniques, from primary and secondary research to quantitative and qualitative…

Are you ready to create a more socially just practice? Design researcher and facilitator Maya Goodwill created ‘A Social Designer’s Field Guide to Power Literacy’ in collaboration with Kennisland. The aim of the field guide is to help designers, researchers and facilitators develop power literacy. This includes building up your awareness of, sensitivity to and understanding of the impact of power and systemic oppression in participatory processes. The field guide will help you gain a holistic understanding of power, while examining the role you play in reproducing inequity – however unintentional – and what you can do to change this.

Session 02 — An overview of user flows and techniques you can use to identify, make, and communicate better human-centered design…

Last week I wrote about challenging the dominance of English in writing for research and academia. That theme is also relevant to this post, though here it’s more about challenging Euro-Weste…

Tl;dr Launching today, Ethical Explorer is a digestible, accessible (& free!) toolkit designed to help founders, product managers…

A big problem that we often see out in the field is that we humans have a tendency to make a lot of assumptions.

A user-centered approach to explaining what we do