The Story of Co-Design from thinkpublic on Vimeo.
A short and sweet animation illustrating the “Co-Design” process.

Tags: Co-Design, Design Methodology, Public Services, Service Design

01. Net-Map: a social network analysis toolbox
Net-Map is a visualization and facilitation tool developed by Eva Schiffer that can be very useful for design processes for/with Community/Locality Systems.

Net-Map is an interview-based mapping tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes. By creating Influence Network Maps, individuals [...]

Tags: Community, Design Methodology, Locality, Low-tech, Social Network, Social Network Analysis, Tool, Visualization

After some months of designing and prototyping, I am so happy to annouce you that the openp2pdesign.org store page on Lulu.com is now finally open at http://lulu.com/openp2pdesign.
You will find there all the print version of the books published within the openp2pdesign.org project.
The first book you can already find there is the print version of openp2pdesign.org_1.1, [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Design Methodology, Web 2.0

After the first book and the second one about managing Free Software / Open Source projects, here you can find the third one: “Innovation Happens Elsewhere. Open Source as Business Strategy” by Ron Goldman and Richard P. Gabriel.

This is an online version of our open source book based on the version published by Morgan Kaufmann [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Design Methodology, Free Software, Open Source, Technology

After the first book about managing Free Software / Open Source projects, here you can find another and older (2002) methodology for managing a free software project: Free Software Project Management HOWTO, by Benjamin “Mako” Hill.
As I said before, this kind of guides are important as inspiration for open p2p projects, especially if we se [...]

Tags: Design Methodology, Free Software, Open Source, Platform, Technology

Here is the first of three books about how to manage a Free Software / Open Source community and process that are freely available online. They are very important for two reasons: they represent a good introduction to how Free Software / Open Source projects work, and they can be very useful resources in the [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Design Methodology, Free Software, Open Source, Technology

Here is an almost complete toolkit (v. 1.0) for User-centered Design.

The research department (’lectoraat’ at Communication and Multimedia Design at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, with research professor Ingrid Mulder, has worked on this toolkit with a research group on Human Centered ICT. The project was presented by Bas Leurs during a workshop on [...]

Tags: Design Methodology, User-centered Design