is a nonprofit design organization that launched out of IDEO in 2011 with a mission to improve the lives of poor and vulnerable communities through design. received an amazing outpouring of support and strengthened its deeply held belief that human-centered design can push the social sector forward. The Field Guide was funded by more than 1300 backers in a Kickstarter campaign that reaching nearly three times its initial goal.
The Field Guide is the latest in ’s suite of teaching tools and a step forward in sharing the practice and promise of human-centered design with the social sector.Ī full-color, 192-page book, the Field Guide comes with 57 design methods, the key mindsets that underpin how and why believes design can change lives, a full slate of worksheets, and case studies from projects that show human-centered design in action. In April 2015, launched an exciting new evolution of the HCD Toolkit the Field Guide to Human-Centered Design.
