Tool School

Want more tools?

Here are a few go-to resources at your fingertips:

Articles

• Behaviour Change Strategy Cards
  The cards in this deck will help you generate concepts aimed at changing people's behaviors. For both individual and group brainstorming
• Designorate - Design Thinking, innovation and user experience
  Designorate covers design news and articles related to design management, design thinking, and user experience design
• Medium DXD Digital Experience Design
  Thoughts, ideas, and visions of experience design fanatics from Hyper Island
• Paper Prototyping
  Paper prototyping gives you a quick sanity check on design concepts before investing time and money coding it
• What is User Centered Design
  User experience (UX) topic overview/definition
• Why Human-Centered Design Matters
  In 1894, W.K. Kellogg made a discovery that would forever change what we eat in the morning

Toolkits and Guides

• • The Business Model Canvas
    A global standard used by millions of people in companies of all sizes. Use the canvas to describe, design, challenge, and pivot your business model
  • The Collective Action Toolkit
    The Collective Action Toolkit puts design-thinking tools into the hands of local change agents to transform communities
  • DIY Development Impact & You
    Practical tools to trigger and support social innovation
  • Human Centered Design Toolkit 2nd Edition
    An open-source toolkit to inspire new solutions in the developing world
  • IDEO Design Kit
    Design Kit is a powerhouse resource for human-centered design. These books, guides, and free downloads can help you routinely innovate and solve big problems
  • Nesta
    Find practical tools and resources to spark new ideas and support innovation for whatever you’re working on
  • Stanford d.school ‘Tools for taking action’
    Use these activities, tools, and how-to’s as a starting point — we hope you’ll hack them for whatever challenge you’re working on
  • Usability.gov Methods
    Usability.gov is the one-stop source for user experience best practices and strategies. Check out these tools on improving the user experience
  • Useful methods, guides and tools for doing human centered design
    Resources that help us do human-centred design
  • User Centered Design Canvas
    User Centered Design Canvas (UCDC) is an easy to use and effective UX tool for analyzing, organizing, and facilitating user experience design process

Courses

• The Art of Opportunity
  The Art of Opportunity is a best selling book on business design thinking for strategic innovation and new growth
• The Design Gym
  Through workshops, building community, and facilitating collaboration, The Design Gym helps organizations to spark culture change
• Human-Centered Design: An Introduction
  In this course, you will learn how to design technologies that bring people joy, rather than frustration
• Introduction to Human Centered Design
  Learn from IDEO.org to use human-centered design for social innovation