Human Centred Design Foundations

Why Human Centred Design Matters

Solving complex problems today requires more than thinking up unique solutions and moving through agile implementation. The needs of individuals, organisations, and populations are rapidly changing. Collaborating with the people who matter most and innovating through collaborative design processes is critical if we’re to make the kind of impact in the world we need.

Our Human Centred Design (HCD) Foundations workshop provides you with the training and resources to begin thoughtfully collaborating with the people you’re designing for. You'll also learn the fundamental concepts for involving people with lived experience in designing solutions - from research and ideation through to prototyping and testing - while building capabilities in active listening, creative confidence, and implementing HCD practices within your workplace and context.

What You’ll Learn

1. Introduction to human-centred design while building awareness about how it can be used to understand problems and to design solutions.

2. Learn about co-design in action, and the core principles and approaches to an ethical practice.

3. Gain hands-on experience of human-centred design through an experiential activity that moves through a ‘Double-Diamond’ design process.

4. By the end of the session, you’ll have a practical, foundational understanding of what it means to practise ethical human-centred design.

Benefits of Training with Portable

We use human-centred design and ethical co-design every day at Portable to overcome difficult challenges with practical solutions, created in collaboration with people who are seeking transformational change.

Using these practices, our team of designers, strategists and technologists have successfully delivered over 1000 projects across a range of impact areas including mental health, access to justice, government innovation, and more.

Not to mention:

• Run by industry experts

• Intimate workshop size

• Engaging hands-on training

You'll also get access to Portable's Human Centred Design Toolkit

At Portable, we’ve worked to embed ethical principles and processes into all of our projects. This toolkit shares the resources and knowledge we’ve gained along the way.

We’ve expanded our toolkit to include instructions, templates and resources to help you and your team streamline and facilitate ethical human-centred design projects to better design products and services.

The best part? Access to our toolkit is included in the cost of your ticket!