Marketing for Health
A recent experiment in Brazil shows that successfully getting fortified foods to people who need them is as much about aspiration as access.
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Innovations in solution-based design techniques that address social problems (more)
Before the Backlash, Let’s Redefine User-Centered Design
We must better understand user-centered design’s limitations—not just its strengths—in the context of international development. And we must adapt it from its original uses designing commercial products to solving for social good.
Nonprofits
High Tech for Dry Times
A system that combines software and sensors promises to improve farmers’ ability to manage, conserve, and lease water.
Global Issues
Designed for Support
Maggie’s Centres, a network of specially built facilities in the United Kingdom, provides cancer patients with a comforting environment.
Competing Principles
Race to the Top, a $4 billion US education reform effort, produced valuable lessons on designing a competition-based program.
Fostering Behavior Change for Better Health
How a patient-centered approach and tools from the private sector can greatly enhance global health programs that require changes in attitudes or behavior.
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Peers Inc
Peers Inc explores how age-old concepts of capitalism, consumerism, and even ownership are taking on new meaning in today’s marketplace of the "sharing economy."
Turning Empathy into Action
How the nature of design thinking complements and strengthens collective impact frameworks.
When Will Design Get Serious About Impact?
To achieve sustained impact, designers should strive to shift the fundamental dynamics of development.