Launch

Your design team (or a smaller initiating team) will start by preparing for the design process. This includes scoping the design challenge, selecting the most appropriate design pathway for your project, creating design teams, reflecting on the best community-based design model to use, aligning all stakeholders around the requirements of the project and building your team.

We must understand an underlying problem before we can solve it.

What steps can we take to ensure we understand the context and complexities of a design project?

Launch

Use the tools and resources in this guidebook to form your design team, plan your project and get ready to launch your design work.

Select your design team and choose roles

Build internal
buy-in

Plan the project: timeline, design path and approach to co-design

Build external buy-in

Set team norms and do some team building

Engage community members as co-designers

Review design process, materials and resources

LAUNCH
Design Project!

Overview of launch phase

Mindsets of launch phase

Work together to understand the context
Look closely to understand potential problems and opportunities
Stay optimistic that you can solve the problem
Hold back on solving the problem during this phase

Overview of launch phase

The tools in the Project Launch Phase are designed to help your team create a shared understanding of the goals and constraints of your design project and build a design team that is well-supported by the organization to complete this project.

Objectives of launch phase

The goal of this phase is to ensure that everyone involved with this project is aligned around the goals and expectations for the project as well as the requirements and constraints that need to be considered.
By aligning early, your design team will have the clarity they need to develop sustainable solutions that create meaningful change for those closest to the problem.