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4 - Co-design

Steps in co-design process

• planning activities
• recruiting participants
• running activities
• debriefing

Tools for running design activities

• 18F UX Guide - The 18F user experience (UX) designers join cross-functional teams to improve interactions between government agencies and the people they serve. The 18F UX Guide helps us get this job done. It’s a starting point for UX design at 18F: doing it, discussing it, and ensuring it’s done to a consistent level of quality.
• 18F Methods - The 18F Methods are a collection of tools that describe how our teams put human-centered design into practice. These cards are focused on design in the context of digital services, but can be adapted to non-technical design projects as well.
• Collective Action Toolkit by frog design
• Field Guide: Equity-Centered Community Design by Creative Reaction Lab

Debriefing

Debriefing is also a time for the team to discuss how a session might have impacted them in case the topic might have brought up difficult or complex feelings. Making space for the team to share and process how they are impacted by the research allows the team to be emotionally centered and know if/when they need a break. Did the session bring up anything difficult that you want to share with the team? Does anyone need a break?

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