Design
Suggested resources:
- The Disciplines of User Experience Design, a Venn diagram by Envis Prescisely design studio that "unites all disciplines of user experience design on one canvas."
AI Design Field Guide
"[W]e started AI Design Field Guide to serve as both a resource for our peers in the field, and also a time capsule of this unique time where we're all figuring out how this new kind of work is done i...
FabRiders
Since 2012, FabRiders has been at the forefront of building, refining, and iterating participatory and network-centric practices to empower social change movements & initiatives.
Public Servants
We’re a team of experienced public servants, designers, and strategists who help organizations solve complex problems and strengthen systems that serve everyone better.
Good Services - the book
The bestselling book by Lou Downe about how to design services that work
OneTeamGov Canada Pattern Library
The OneTeamGov Canada Pattern Library is a curated set of design, service and policy patterns and tools to help government teams across Canada deliver services.
Design for Delegation
Beyond Self-Service: Design Patterns for Delegation-based Digital Services
Path to Design
Explore how designers found their path into tech or share your own to inspire others.
America by Design Fail
President Trump fired the best designers in the Federal Government and now he needs to fix it.
lowercase
lowercase is a design lab and studio partnering with community-led organizations to co-design and craft accessible, impactful civic tools rooted in data and lived experience.
Digital Identities Decision Guide
This guide seeks to serve as a comprehensive toolkit to enable different parties to make informed decisions around proposed digital ID systems.
Futurall
Futurall uses collective imagination to navigate complex systems
Civic Interaction Design Research Group
Civic Interaction Design is an interdisciplinary research group at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
Blueprint on Prosocial Tech Design Governance
This Blueprint on Prosocial Tech Design Governance lays out actionable recommendations for governments, civil society, researchers, and industry to design digital platforms that reduce harm and increa...
Focus on Features
Minimize digital harms through design, a guide for product managers and lawmakers.
Draftlab
Creative project design for social good champions through appropriate technology that strengthens human systems.
Council on Technology and Social Cohesion
The Council on Tech and Social Cohesion is catalyzing the field of technology for social cohesion.
Data as Material Course
Taught By Richard The
Civic Service Design Graduate Minor at The New School
The Civic Service Design minor draws upon a practice and subfield of research and theory that connect to design, social theory, and public policy and management frameworks, methods, and tools to refor...
The Situate AI Guidebook: Co-Designing a Toolkit to Support Multi-Stakeholder Early-stage Deliberations Around Public Sector AI Proposals
By Anna Kawakami, Amanda Coston, Haiyi Zhu, Hoda Heidari, Kenneth Holstein
Policy Lab (GOV.UK)
Uses design, innovation, and people-centered approaches to improve policymaking
DIVERSIFAIR
A 3-year project funded by the EU's Erasmus+ programme to mitigate the discriminatory impact of AI on people's lives.
Design Hops
A free seven-week online training programme teaching innovative techniques from the digital world to enhance work and problem-solving abilities.
GovFresh
GovFresh is a media and innovation lab working at the intersection of design, technology and government.
Design Reparations
OpenStreetMap Americana
A new OpenStreetMap style by the US chapter
USWDS + Tailwind
A modern rewrite that hopes to make it a bit easier for federal product teams to adopt, adapt, and extend the USWDS.
Transversal Design for Social Impact
This course uniquely combines the critical lens of art with the innovation framework of DesignX, promoting introspection and thoughtful deliberation before diving into design interventions.
Open Source Design Jobs
Need a logo designed, a usability study, or an interface-facelift? Our diverse community and extended network have got you covered.
Women-Centric Design
A toolkit for impact practitioners to build products, services & systems that center women.
Design Trust for Public Space
Unlocking the potential of New York’s public spaces.
Design for America Studios
Studios are nodes of community, design education, and localized impact within university campuses across the U.S.
Inclusive Digital Design Toolkit: Practical guidance for Feed the Future activities
A design toolkit for USAID staff on how to design inclusive digital technology interventions, written for work on global hunger but applicable in many other contexts.
Deceptive Patterns
A taxonomy of deceptive design patterns, laws, cases, reading list, hall of shame, and Deceptive Patterns book
PUNCHUP
We create meaningful conversation with data + design + story.
Seattle By Design
A pilot program that connected a cohort of volunteer experts with City staff to answer questions and make recommendations using best practices in user research. Seattle By Design is a partnership betw...
Chicago Digital Services Team
The Digital Services team works to make city services more accessible and inclusive for Chicago residents. It’s our mission to listen, amplify, and design with the community to build better technology...
Penpot
Penpot is the Open-Source Design & Prototyping Tool for Product Teams (Figma alternative)
GOV.UK Design System
Use this design system to make government services consistent with GOV.UK. Learn from the research and experience of other service teams and avoid repeating work that’s already been done.
Deceptive Design Resources
Case studies, blog posts, and Airtables with examples
Niji eco-design site concept
Users choose which resources they want to "consume", or load, to reduce the website's footprint
BlackSpace
We break the silos of urbanist practices to build Black power and Black joy.
Civic Design (2022 conference)
A conference for people who work in the intersection of design and the public sector.
Design Ethnography Lab
This laboratory was formed as an effort to develop design methods and practices, which on the one hand are based on technological developments, and on the other, based on the development of social, cu...
Prosocial Design Network
A library of design interventions to encourage prosocial behaviors online
Toools.design
A growing archive of 1000+ design resources, weekly updated for the community.
Empathy Prompts
This site loads one of a series of prompts to help the user empathize with people experiencing various conditions, from Multiple Sclerosis to near-sightedness.
Greater Good Studio
Greater Good Studio is a design firm dedicated to the social sector.
Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age
Our syllabus is a set of free, open access ‘teach the teacher’ materials designed to help educators teach master’s level students the skills they need to thrive as public servants in the Digital Era....
Humanity Innovation Labs
Humanity Innovation Labs is an agile consultancy that offers Mixed Methods Research, UX/UI, and Industrial Design services for emerging technologies within wearable computing (e.g. physical devices an...
Terreform ONE
Terreform ONE is a nonprofit architecture and urban design research group. We endeavor to combat the extinction of planetary species through pioneering acts of design.