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Are you a civil servant working to make government more user-centred? Join the International Design in Government community.
These tools can help you test ideas and products with real users so you design services that work for people. There are also tools to help you present research in a meaningful way and bring it to life.
Master in Data & Design
La Rambla, 30-32, 08002 Barcelona, SpainThe MADD programme will provide candidates with the Master Key to create comprehensible and meaningful ways to connect people with information.
The professional association for design
Nesta Designing for Public Services: a practical guide
58 Victoria EmbankmentOur guide on using design tools and methods in the public sector, created in partnership with design firm IDEO.
Citizen Interaction Design University of Michigan
University of Michigan, South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, USACitizen Interaction Design (CID) partners rising information professionals with Michigan communities to create information tools for twenty-first century citizens.
Government Design Systems
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)A list of design systems and CSS frameworks used by governments around the world
500+ design tools for public good, all in one place.
Principles for government service design
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Lou Downe, Director of Design and Service Standards for the UK Government opens #ServicesWeek 2019
We’re a new office within the City of Austin that’s dedicated to designing and building services for residents that grow and adapt with their needs.
At MIT, the Design Laboratory exists within a context of broad-based technological innovation and builds upon the unique advantages offered by this setting. It pursues research, executes practical design and art projects, and engages in scholarship and criticism.
This playbook is a crash course on service design. It works alongside the 13 points set out in the Digital Service Standard to provide the basics needed to get started on a digital service.
A resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane digital products through patterns focused on user well-being.
Climate Designers provides the knowledge, skills, and professional network to support designers to be climate leaders everywhere they work
Original site for the Field Guides to Ensuring Voter Intent, which now live at https://civicdesign.org
MindLab's design methods
MindLab, Slotsholmsgade 12, 1216 Copenhagen Municipality, København K, DenmarkEurope's best framework for developing and operating a business
US Web Design Standards
Washington, DCDesign and build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly government websites backed by user research.
A compilation of reflections, tools and methodologies with the capacity to program and activate Collective Intelligence processes with impact on the Territory.
Citizen interaction design
Michigan, USAin which students are partnered with a local community in Michigan for the purpose of using information and technology to effect change in how citizens interact with and are served by local units of government.
Civic technology should empower us as citizens.
Center for Civic Design
78 Washington Ave, High Bridge, NJ 08829, USADemocracy is a design problem
Vote by Design
Stanford d.school, Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA, USAOur free digital curriculum allows educators, civic organizers, and community leaders to help new voters find clarity on what leadership qualities are most important to them in a U.S. President -- and why.
Use these cards early in the design process to help you sketch, plan, prototype and design content, interactions and processes.
Civic Design Lab
Oakland, CaliforniaCivic Design Lab (CDL) is a civic service design and innovation team within Oakland City Hall that grew out of the Resilient Oakland initiative.
Center for Collective Intelligence Design
58 Victoria EmbankmentThe Centre for Collective Intelligence Design will explore how human and machine intelligence can be combined to make the most of our collective knowledge and develop innovative and effective solutions to social challenges.
Colloqate Design
4025 Ulloa St, New Orleans, LA 70119, USAExploring the culturally specific language of Design + Justice habitually juxtaposed at a higher frequency than chance
The Civic Media Codesign Studio was a service-learning, project-based studio course where students partner with community-based organizations to create civic media projects grounded in real-world needs.
Digital Design Principles for Charities
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Build the right thing in the right way
Loup Design
Washington, DCLoup is a human-centered design and innovation consultancy that helps organizations listen to and learn from the people they serve.
Created by NetFreedom Pioneers, the NKITI is designed to lower the entry barriers for technical individuals and organizations seeking to develop new information access solutions for the DPRK, and to serve as a launchpad for a new wave of technology-driven and DPRK-focused organizations.
Sourcebase Inquiry
United States of America (the)sourcebase.ai is an AI platform designed for journalists, researchers, and professionals who need to make sense of massive amounts of source material.
U_Code
DresdenThe Horizon 2020 project U_CODE (Urban Collective Design Environment) aims to create an environment for urban co-design.
Tech Diplomacy Academy
IndianaOnline education platform: "Learn new ways of working at the intersection of innovation, business, and geopolitics, and discover the role you or your organization can play in a future where technology advances freedom."
RadicalxChange Foundation is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to democratic innovation and institutional design through operational partnerships and experimental projects between academia, government, art, technology, and beyond.
The Public AI Network is a coalition working to bring about public AI.
Civic Engagement Microgrant Program
Arlington, VAMicrogrants of up to $3,000 will be awarded, on a rolling basis, to STEM groups led by master’s, PhD, postdoc, or professional students to design and execute projects that create dialogue with public officials, local community leaders, and the public around issues of common concern.
TextOut has been trusted by hundreds of candidates and organizations across the U.S. since 2018.
Learn how to bolster your user research and design more effective services by forming a participant advisory council.
This set of free tools, guidance, and training is designed to help organizations take key cybersecurity steps and be more secure.
By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.
New Practice Lab
Washington, DCThe New Practice Lab's theory of change is deceptively simple: we should design public goods and services the same way we design the most successful private goods and services— in partnership with the people who use them, and suited to the digital age in which we live.
Vote Report India
India (Bhārat)Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election
8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions
Spotlighting Illegal Transfers to Curb Corruption
Checkit
Cape Town, South AfricaCheckIT is a flexible, event-based mobile inspection tool designed by VPUU to improve the delivery of essential services in Cape Town’s informal settlements.
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