Design your design work

Recognizing that not all teams need to begin in the same place and that not all problems require the same investment of time and resources, this tool is designed to help your team evaluate the problem you are hoping to solve, in order to determine the most productive course of action.

Work with your team to use the Innovation Potential Diagnostic Tools to determine the innovation potential of a project. Each diagnostic outcome will result in a different pathway for your project work. Each project pathway has a different goal, a different starting place and a different recommendation for how much time to invest in the project. Each project pathway also includes a recommended sequence of Phases, tools and methods from the HCD process that align to the needs and goals of this project.

Your design team may not have all the necessary information – that’s okay! Just make your best guesses.

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Assessing the Difficulty of Making Positive Change 

Instructions: Use this tool to determine how difficult it might be to help improve the conditions of the community most relevant to your project. This tool will help you determine if Human-Centred Design will be useful in developing new approaches to solving the problem

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Assessing the Potential Transformational Impact of a Project 

Instructions: Use this tool to assess the transformational potential of a project in order 
to allocate the appropriate resources to that project. 

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Assessing the Potential of an HCD Approach 

Instructions: Use this tool to determine whether HCD is the best approach for a particular project. Assessing the communities’ openness/resistance to change is an important consideration when approaching how to work with communities and respect their ways of life. 

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Assessing your Teams' Understanding of the Problem 

Instructions: Use this tool to determine which design path - the combination of design phases and tools - is the best for this problem and project 

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