Simon Rafferty has a piece Prototyping a tool for co-designing policy interventions, The piece explores how to prototype new policies. He looked at system mapping, but found it wasn’t strong at figuring out the why about intervening, or what could be done. He drafted this canvas to start a new prototyping tool vision: Because of this limitation of the existing tools, I want to … Read More
Delivering Public Service for the Future
The European Centre for Government Transformation launches Delivering Public Service for the Future: How Europe Can Lead Public-Sector Transformation, a collection of 12 thoughtful essays on the future of public-sector reform and state modernisation. Written by 12 of Europe’s leading thinkers and policymakers, the essays explore a wide range of best practice in the field of state transformation, setting out the … Read More
Lessons Learned: Lean Impact : Innovating for Social Good
The upcoming book, from Ann Mei Chang, Lessons Learned: Lean Impact : Innovating for Social Good, promises to hold many lessons for design work for policy and systems. This article on the Lean Startup blog, Startup Lessons Learned, begins to profile what the book will share about how to innovate in the social sector using lean and human-centered methods. The author, Ann … Read More
On prototyping and putting something out there… notes from the UK Policy Lab
Vasant Chari, writing on the UK Policy Lab blog, documents how prototyping is being used in the government: On prototyping and putting something out there… – Policy Lab I believe we should embrace a ‘prototyping mindset’ whenever we are making policy. I’d like to leave you with three reasons: First, prototyping is an acknowledgment that even after doing the research and … Read More
Prototyping and the new spirit of policy-making
This article, by Lucy Kimbell and Jocelyn Bailey, describes how prototyping methods can be brought into the policy process: Prototyping and the new spirit of policy-making: CoDesign: Vol 13, No 3 This conceptual paper discusses the use of Co-Design approaches in the public realm by examining the emergence of a design practice, prototyping, in public policy-making. We argue that changes … Read More
Mapping Policy Maker’s Experience
This slide show of policy-making maps can help us think through how design can play a role in making new policies — by seeing visually how the systems interrelate, and how we might create new policies that intervene and affect at different points.
Methodbank and toolkit for design in Government
This set of methods gives a high level view of design methods that can be used in a Policy Lab to make user research, experiments, and prototypes of new services, products, and policies for a government.
PolicyLab Change Cards for design work in government
This card deck from the UK Policy Lab can be used in a policymaking cycle, to provoke respondents with challenges and to encourage better mindsets while doing design work.
Introduction to the UK Policy Lab
This slide deck from the United Kingdom Policy Lab gives the basics of their structure, operations, and projects. It offers methods like Hopes and Fears Cards, Speculative Design, Policy Jams, Open Ideas Days, Paper Prototyping, and beyond.