Overview

Find out how the programme will work (10m)

Discover the user you’ll be designing a solution for (10m)

Uncover the issues your user faces in using public spaces (10m)

Identify their motivations & behaviours in using public spaces (10m)

Select an issue you want to tackle (10m)

How can you help people make the best use of the spaces around them? (10m)

Develop ideas that tackle the issue (10m)

Make sure it meets the criteria (10m)

Write up your idea (10m)

Discover the user you’ll be designing a solution for

http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/peoplemakeplacesbook

Uncover the issues your user faces in using public spaces

Identify their motivations & behaviours in using public spaces

Select an issue you want to tackle

How can you help people make the best use of public spaces…

…in Kent?

Develop ideas that tackle the issue

Develop ideas that tackle the issue

Make sure it meets the criteria

Come up with an idea that helps people where they live

Demonstrate how it solves the issue/s you’ve chosen to tackle

Demonstrate how it would help your target audience/s

Show how they would use it

Come up with a creative name for your idea

Write up your idea

Name of idea

How does it meet the challenge?

What issue does it help solve?

What target audience/s would it help?

How would people use it?

Design the solution to your idea

Support Programme

Get assigned a coach who can help you make the best use of the programme

Come up with joint challenges you want help with. Local people invited to fortnightly /monthly meetups to help you tackle challenges in an hour

Choose what support you need and receive 1:1 support

Meet up with Working Group every fortnight to showcase and peer review each other’s progress

To help you take forward the solutions developed, discover what support you can get.

Research: Help carry out market & user research to understand and target potential customers

Business: Help develop a business model & plan to pitch to investors and make the solution sustainable

Service design: Help support in designing the end to end service for the solution

Communications: Help develop a communications plan & branding to promote the solution

Coaching: Help coach the team / person to take their solution forward

We also provide personalised support:

Graphic & web design: Help provide graphic or web design support for the solution

Web & software development: Help provide development or programming support for the solution

User testing: Help test the solution with users using human-computer interaction

Digital making: Help advise how to make the best use of 3D printing and other digital making

Other (contact us with your ideas for how we could help)