One of my recent projects has been the development of a (soon to be available) participatory design framework for Youth Mental Health Promotion research developed in collaboration with the Inspire Foundation and the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre in Australia. As part of prior research for the project I collated a selection of examples of design toolkits and guides that I thought I would share here. Some of them have a particularly inclusive or participatory focus, others are more classic tool kits and guides. I know there are many others out there so please feel free to point to more! Thanks.
- Designing With People.Org An excellent inclusive design resource developed by Prof Jeremy Myerson and Yanki Lee at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art. There is a range of personas and methods that can be used to support inclusive design (ht @scenariogirl)
- Sociability: social media for people with a disability A guide by Media Access Australia on how to work around existing accessibility issues in social media
- People and Participation.net An extensive and ever growing resource of principles, practices, resources case studies and methods for supporting and planning for participation that grew out of the Involve 2005 book.
- A framework for organizing the tools and techniques of participatory design (pdf) A paper by Liz Sanders, Eva Brandt and Thomas Binder on organising and analysing various common co-design workshop methods and techniques
- Designing with Inclusive Design A toolkit/book/framework by the Norwegian Design Council on how and why to adopt Inclusive Design
- Usability.gov Excellent start point for basic user research methods, shows the benefits of different methods, provides descriptions and templates
- Health Codesign A toolkit for co-design in healthcare developed by Hilary Boyd, Stephen McKernon and Andrew Old
- Agencies of Engagement Four books by Giles Lane from Proboscis, a cultural innovation studio, that outline methodologies, approach and resulting case studies
- Duberly Design Models (pdf) A compendium of different design models and processes compiled by Hugh Dubberly
- The Change Agency Stacks of methods and training resources for enabling social change and strategic/organisational planning
- Change by design: Building communities through participatory design Examples of methods and activities
- Service Design Network Melbourne Resource List A growing list of local (Australian and NZ) service design related case studies and templates
- Service Design: Practical Access to an Evolving Field (pdf). Excellent Introduction and Overview to Service Design by Stefan Moritz, this is his thesis and contains a range of methods, models and frameworks
- Service Design Tools A repository of case studies and examples of methods categorised under various themes, developed by Roberta Tassi for her thesis
- Service Design Toolkit Tools, methods and templates developed by dutch organisations Namahn and Yellow Window and Design Flanders
- d.school bootcamp bootleg (pdf) The d.school complication of methods and modes
- Human Centred Design Toolkit‘. IDEO’s Human Centred Design Toolkit (they also have an educators version)
- Learning Space Toolkit An in-development site to support the development of learning spaces
- PARTICIPATORY METHODS TOOLKIT A practitioner’s manual [Added to post 14 June 2012] Extensive and detailed guidelines, methods and techniques for taking a participatory approach to public decision making processes
- TouchPoints Stephen McKernon of Supplejack has a number of examples and templates for co-design of services (e.g., touchpoint mapping).
- Gamestorming – an excellent collection of collaborative design activities with a very useful workshop framework for structuring and combining activities
- Innovation Games – online games that encourage participation and innovation
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