Impact through Design
Research and Strategy for problem solving
The word ‘Design’ is more commonly used as a noun, instead of as a verb. But design has grown from just focusing on aesthetics to a field encompassing all kinds of innovations. Design research and strategy have enabled this growth by developing breakthrough solutions in many relevant contexts.
Solution Design
Design Research
Strategy definition
Trend Analysis
Waste Management for Rural Schools
Content and Translation strategy for Quest Alliance
Campaign strategy for Sexual and Reproductive Health in Bihar
Design Research
When it comes to businesses, Design research is looked upon as a combination of business consultancy, academic research, and classical design.
When research goes to the socio-environmental sector, it becomes a cross of ethnography, sociology, and design.
Design research unfolds unarticulated needs, through stories, by understanding the stakeholders directly.
A lot of tools like interviewing, shadowing, and observing can be used to empathize with direct and indirect stakeholders.
Strategy Development and planning
Every new project needs a strategic plan. A breakthrough innovation or an idea should be backed up with a well-designed plan and thorough implementation.
The best possible design begins with developing a detailed design strategy. On the contrary, Strategy without effective design falls flat. We achieve outstanding results by integrating both.
Trend Analysis
Trend analysis is the process of collating, understanding and analysing behaviour, norms and needs of users to form a pattern. Trend analysis uses design research methodologies, if done within a user group, and can go beyond applying known design tools if done for quantitative data.
Experience and Service Design
Saveisa
Ahhaa - A mental wellbeing platform
ADTW
MOOC design
Bioscope
Customer/user Experience
Customer experience is how your customers perceive their interactions with a product or a service.
Customer experience should be useful and deliver value to the product or service. It should be comfortably usable for the customer and it should please the customer at an emotional level. Whatever we design, we have to make it enjoyable for the user in order to keep them engaged with the product or service.
Service Design
he basic guideline of a service or strategy is system design. Taking a holistic view of all the related factors, their interactions, supporting materials and infrastructures is the key to service design. It often involves user journey maps, which tell stories of different users and where they interact with tangible and intangible products.
User-centered, understanding the user by doing qualitative research
Co-creative, by involving all relevant stakeholders in the design process
Sequencing, by partitioning a complex service into separate processes
Evidencing, by visualizing service experiences and making them tangible
Holistic, by considering touchpoints in a network of interactions and users
Customer Experience
Service Design
Education and Design
Curriculum Design
Storytelling
Avantika Curriculum
Using play based learning for awareness on Menstrual Health
Invention and Sustainability curriculum
Digi-stories
The world is changing and the times are evolving. The same should happen in the space of learning.
Innovation in education has now become a mandate.
It is taken for granted that every child should learn mathematics, science, history, art, music and language. It is time we realised that an average child is not interested in all of these subjects. We have yet to come across a child who is not happy to get a 'free period'..
When-children are coaxed, goaded and forced into learning they turn out to be indifferent scholars who scrape through school and college and become dull office workers, uncreative teachers, mediocre engineers, and unimaginative factory managers.
— Arvind Kumar Gupta
Social and societal innovation
Campaign strategy for Sexual and Reproductive Health in Bihar
Content and Translation strategy for Quest Alliance
Using play based learning for awareness on Menstrual Health
SELCO Foundation
Saahas Zero Waste
Shelter for labours camps
Digi-stories
Uplifting the Patharwats
Social Innovation
Social innovation covers a range from macro to micro issues and can be discussed from the perspectives of its outcome and process. They define social innovation as new ideas (products, services, and models) that simultaneously meet social needs (more effectively than alternatives), create new social relationships and collaborations to enhance society’s capacity to act.
Social: the grassroots social innovations which respond to pressing social demands that are not addressed by the market and are directed toward vulnerable groups in society.
Societal: the broader level innovation addressing societal challenges in which the boundaries between social and economic are blurred, and are directed towards society as a whole.
Successful societal innovation contains the key components of systemic change, structural change, stakeholders’ involvement, acceptance by both individual citizens and government, and interdependent systems designed to bring about desirable outcomes and lasting impact.