
34′C and a chance to escape the grey that embraces Glasgow in March. What more could you ask for? Perhaps, the opportunity to work with some of the most creative and talented, coders, designers, branding and marketing professionals, business analysts, and festival managers in Nigeria. I was delighted to be invited by the British Council [...]
Posted by AndyYoung in News, Our thoughts, Our work, Service Design on April 12, 2012 / 1 comment
Tags: culture, festivals, nigeria, social innovation camp

What makes an engaging service design workshop? That was what I contemplated going into the second of six redesigning leaving care workshops the intention of which is to blueprint the aftercare care service, extract insights, challenges and opportunities, create ideas, prototype these, test them and substantiate all of this to create design solutions that improve [...]
Posted by AndyYoung in News, Our work on July 22, 2011 / no comments

As a result of research that IRISS conducted on the state of innovation and improvement in Scottish social services sector, key barriers to innovation emerged. A lack of time, finance and political interests were the three main barriers that were reported by the sector – maintaining the status quo rather than focusing on the needs [...]
Posted by AndyYoung in Co-design and Co-production, Design with people, News, Our work, Projects, What we do on July 8, 2011 / no comments