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Case Studies: Government Consultation & Participation Process for Disabled Person’s Organisations

Consultation & Participation Process for Disabled Person’s Organisations

Context Studio, in collaboration with Dublin City Council and a number of Disabled Persons Organisations, developed an inclusive consultation process aligned with the UNCRPD to prioritise the representation of disabled individuals' voices in public decision-making.


Service Designer: Context Studio, Dublin – Design team: John Lynch & Sean Casey

Service Provider: Dublin City Council, Ireland

Industry: Government

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Case Study Modernising Singapore’s Employment Pass Legacy Systems

Modernising Singapore’s Employment Pass Legacy Systems

Several legacy IT systems had been used by the Singapore Ministry of Manpower to facilitate millions of work pass transactions annually. Years of overlaying new rules and requirements meant that they no longer met user needs.


Service Designer: Work Pass Integrated System (“WINS”) Programme Office

Service Provider: The Singapore Ministry of Manpower (MOM)

Industry: Government

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Case Studies: Government The Future of Home (SDN Award Finalist 2024)

The Future of Home (SDN Award Finalist 2024)

Action Lab led ideation activities with people with disabilities & other stakeholders to develop new social housing models that are affordable and that help residents combat social isolation.


Service Designer: Action Lab

Service Provider: Leston Holdings (building and property manager) and Skills Society (a disabilities services provider & parent organization of Action Lab)

Industry: Government

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Case Studies: Government Connect and Adopt - Shaping Adoption Journeys (SDN Award  Finalist 2024)

Connect and Adopt - Shaping Adoption Journeys (SDN Award Finalist 2024)

The project aims to review and redesign the adoption service experience to enhance adoption rates, alleviate shelter pressures, and spread successful practices to other shelters across Taiwan.


Service Designer: Pei-Hsin Shieh, Wen-Ni Tsai, and Yu-Hsin Li

Service Provider: Public animal shelters in Yilan and Hualien Counties, Eastern Taiwan

Industry: Government

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Case Study Collaborative Futures Project

Collaborative Futures Project

What if data-enabled experiences were embedded into our actual communities and neighbourhood environments of Glasgow in 2032?


Service Designer: Master Students of European Design (MEDes), and two graduates B.Des Product Design and M.Des Design Innovation programmes

Service Provider: Glasgow‘s governing entity

Industry: Government

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Case Study Fast Stream

Fast Stream

Fast Stream (FS) is the civil service’s scheme to provide graduates, career changers, and people in the civil service a fast track into leadership. Their goals are to optimise diversity in their organisation and identify candidates with leadership potential.


Service Designer: Cyber-Duck

Service Provider: Civil Service Fast Stream

Industry: Government

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Case Studies: Other Indigenous Youth Wellbeing Circles: Emergent Change

Indigenous Youth Wellbeing Circles: Emergent Change

Our challenge was to provide a co-design framework and facilitation to support the client to achieve their Indigenous youth engagement goals within the Planet Youth initiative.


Service Designer: J5 Design – Sydney Johnson, Pamela Downey, Annand Ollivierre

Service Provider: United Way of Calgary and Area, Miskanawah Community Services Association

Industry: Government

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Case Studies: Government Kin-first Co-design in Child Welfare

Kin-first Co-design in Child Welfare

This service co-design project set out to create a “kin-first” approach at a government agency tasked with the safety of children and youth in a US state of over 7 million people.


Service Designer: Bloom Works, LLC Child Welfare Team

Service Provider: New America’s New Practice Lab in partnership with WA DCYF

Industry: Government

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Case Studies: Government Citizen Centric Police

Citizen Centric Police

This project shows how the police in a European country takes a service design approach to strengthen the outside–in perspective in their governance, development and daily operations


Service Designer: PwC Norway: Anders Kjeseth Valdersnes, Ragnhild Stenvaagnes, Marte Andresen, Astrid Langnes Vierdal, Roger Mortensen, Kristian Eide

Service Provider: The Norwegian Police Directorate

Industry: Government

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Case Studies: Government Setting a 2030 Vision for Resettlement from Prison into the Community

Setting a 2030 Vision for Resettlement from Prison into the Community

In late 2022, a major UK government department wanted to establish a clear long-term vision for how people in prison are settled into prison, prepared for release and resettled back into the community.


Service Designer: Jeffrey Allen, Isabelle Ohlson, Diana Hidalgo + Policy officials: Harriet Mills, Kate Haseler-Young, Nisha Patel

Service Provider: UK government department and associated agencies

Industry: Government

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Case Study Designing PubMed 2.0 - Part I

Designing PubMed 2.0 - Part I

In 2018, PubMed, the world’s largest biomedical and life sciences journal citation database and search engine, needed a redesign. NCBI asked us to inform and validate a re-platforming effort that they internally referred to as “PubMed Labs.”


Service Designer: Victor Udoewa, Andrew Maier

Service Provider: National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

Industry: Government

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Case Studies: Government Design to reactivate the construction industry

Design to reactivate the construction industry

The challenge for BBK was to give support in the creation of the service and experience so that these companies could implement the sanitary protocol and its iniciativas during the COVID crisis. All of this with the objective to take care of the workers and the nearby communities, besides reactivating the industry.


Service Designer: BBK group

Service Provider: Cámara Chilena de la Construcción

Industry: Government

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Case Study Decarbonising farming with a co-created circular service model

Decarbonising farming with a co-created circular service model

At the centre of this global debate, farmers feel like they live in a paradox; they feel pride in feeding the planet but guilty of polluting it. While the European Green Deal sets the direction, farmers are left on their own to find effective solutions for their businesses. We are only at the early stages of measuring GHG, and most solutions connected to public funding are centred around organic farming.


Service Designer: Agency, size 40

Service Provider: Global crop nutrition and agriculture solution provider

Industry: Government

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Case Study Co-designing Futures with the Voluntary Sector

Co-designing Futures with the Voluntary Sector

In 2021 a design and innovation consultancy and a national membership body for the third sector in Wales (the client) co-led a nationwide, participatory futures and system change project with the whole of the voluntary and charitable sector in Wales.


Service Designer: Private Sector Technology, Design & Innovation Consultancy, UK branch

Service Provider: National Membership Body for the Voluntary Sector in Wales

Industry: Government

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Case Study Reducing late and non-payment of rent for a social housing client

Reducing late and non-payment of rent for a social housing client

Universal Credit represented the biggest change to the UK benefits system in years. Six benefits were amalgamated into one. Housing Benefit was no longer paid directly to the landlord. This risked residents making late payments or no payment of rent at all.


Service Designer: Jo Carter and Michelle Rose-Innes

Service Provider: Monmouthshire Housing Association

Industry: Government

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Case Study Trauma-informed service design with the City of Philadelphia’s Office

Trauma-informed service design with the City of Philadelphia’s Office

Philadelphians facing homelessness arrive at the City’s access sites in their most vulnerable state. Staff can experience vicarious trauma while helping those in need. What do trauma-informed services look like for people experiencing homelessness and staff who support them?


Service Designer: Devika Menon, Service Design Strategist at the Service Design Studio, City of Philadelphia, Liana Dragoman, Director of the Service Design Studio, City of Philadelphia

Service Provider: Office of Homeless Services

Industry: Government

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