As organizations throughout the world contend with unprecedented technological, social, environmental and business challenges, design provides a valuable approach to help simplify and humanize complex systems. Today I discuss some new contexts for design, including healthcare, business, social innovation and government, sharing some stories from my own practice. Healthcare Design can support the design of […]
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I recently delivered this presentation at the Designing for the Common Good Symposium at UTS. The child story site The Child Journey map Understanding the Child Story from Jacqueline (Jax) Wechsler
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A talk I recently gave at Social Design Sydney discussing my work with NSW Family and Community Services and designing for IMPACT. [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mHqcWo8XHs[/embedyt]
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I recently gave a speed teaching session at the Design for Social Innovation Conference. The presentation: Persuading your organisation to do awesome things from Jacqueline (Jax) Wechsler
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Social Design Sydney event held: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 Speakers & videos Dominic Campbell is a digital government specialist and social innovator. He established FutureGov in the UK in 2008 and has co-founded several start-ups such as Patchwork a collaboration tool for multi-agency working, currently focused on children and families intervention, Casserole a peer to
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Social Design Sydney’s Designing with Citizens : Citizen-centric policy and services event was held on June 3rd. This event consisted of conversation and Australian case studies discussing citizen involvement in the design of public policy and services at the state, local and federal government levels. The speakers Jane Treadwell World Bank Government Transformation Senior Consultant,
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Doug Powell has a long history of doing “good” design work. He was former president of the AIGA, involved in setting up the Design for Good framework amongst other things. I watched a presentation he gave to students at MICA Social Design and have noted down some of the points I found interesting. http://vimeo.com/88416645 1.
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Curious about applying design thinking methods to solve a tricky problem? Some really great design tool-kits have come across my radar. Check out the list below. Perhaps you have a problem you can apply them to. Feel free to leave a comment about these or if you use any others which are useful? The
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I recently did some research for a project which aims to facilitate health-related behaviour change using technology. Some of this research is summarised below. 1. BJ Fogg’s model In order to build persuasive technology, people need to be encouraged to change their behaviours. The BJ Fogg model was developed in 2009 to understand human behaviour
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Citizen-centric Public Policy & Services Join us for some conversation and Australian case studies discussing citizen involvement in the design of public policy and services at the state, local and federal government levels. Date: June 3rd, 2014 Time: 6:15pm Place: College of Fine Arts, UNSW Greens Rd Paddington NSW Australia http://socialdesignsydney.com for more information
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This is from a project I recently working on. We used a human-centred design process to deliver journey maps, personas and wire-frames for a mobile tool to help cardio-vascular disease patients and those at risk change their behaviour. Sticky Design Studio Case Study for CONNECT project from jaxwechsler
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In August I organised an event for the Sydney Design Festival called Introduction to Social Design Evening. It consisted of a series of case-studies about social design projects by Sydney practitioners. Tasman Munro shares his experiences co-designing with inmates and staff in NSW Corrective Services. Centre for Social Impact fellow Social Designer Ingrid Burkett shared
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