Shifting the needle on the UN Sustainable Development Goals through targeted design research
Design research can become transactional and ad hoc. Aspiring to shift the needle on the UN Sustainability Goals provides ThinkPlace with a focus to undertake design research that has relevance, depth and meaning to enable richer insight and deliver better outcomes. Come and learn through our case studies how we are experimenting with design research methods to create a deeper impact.
Old tools can do new tricks: Using Trello to conduct qualitative research more efficiently
Academia might give us the standards for rigour in research, but it certainly doesn’t have an edge in innovating on how we do this kind of work. Trello, invented for project management, actually serves quite nicely as a digital space for qualitative data collection, synthesis and analysis. You will learn when and how to leverage this tool in your next qualitative study.
There is a dark pathway; we don’t talk about, a pathway that a good number of design researchers have been taking about of late. It’s a path into situations that are emotional demanding, spilling into engagements with high levels of compassion. This can have a lasting effect on you.
Find out what can you or your colleagues do about this? Is it just part of the role we take on as story collectors or is there something else we can do here.