When designing products, services, even organisations; we believe it’s essential to understand their footprint and wider impact on both communities and planetary boundaries.
Make good things.
Appliedloop
A small research & design consultancy
We offer discovery, and design for change.
Working with organisations motivated to improve their position, through the introduction of a wider lens in their human-centred design process.
What impact might be created through design for re-use or returns? How might better understanding your community help you design a new service? What change might be possible through a qualitative growth perspective?
Our approach brings a wider lens to your design process.
We introduce a long term view, and design for positive change.
*Occasionally we send out an email
It’s intermittent. It really is.
We gave it a name, and called it Fabric.
Recently we’ve shared a few notes on qualitative growth.
* previously we introduced ideas for how you might use the ‘Three Horizons’ Futures framework.
Qualitative growth
What if we used quality, not just quantity as a measure for growth?
Quality of the surrounding ecosystem of which the organisation depends.
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Understanding the bigger picture
We believe we have a responsibility to understand the footprint and impact of the things we create and introduce into the world.
What’s the wider impact of this growth strategy?
If we introduce long-term thinking and look at externalities beyond our organisation what impact are we seeing?
How might our design be different?
Sustainable? Regenerative even?
Human-centred design, with a wider lens.
So along with Service Design methodologies, we’ll probably bring some new questions to the table.
A sustainable society might ask what the growth is for, who would benefit, what it would cost, how long it would last, and whether the growth could be accommodated by the sources & sinks of the earth.
— Meadows, Meadows & Randers (2005: 22)