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Summary
Fresh off the December conference, we join together to chart the year ahead for the Civic Design Community. Together we reflect on key tactics, themes, and areas of inquiry you’re carrying into your practice.
Key Insights
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Community members focus on practical, project-based learning to improve civic design impact.
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Voter registration form design and language access remain priority areas for practitioners like Robert.
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Capacity building for public sector leadership in human-centered design is a notable gap Megan is addressing.
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Integrating life-centered design, not just human-centered, is gaining traction as a broader design approach.
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Joanne is developing workshops on complex systems thinking and relational design to shift design mindsets.
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Ethical participatory practices in brand communication are an emerging area of curiosity and experimentation.
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Protecting personal time is a significant collective concern within the civic design community.
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Networking formats like random pairings (Donuts) are valued to build one-to-one connections across the community.
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There is interest in digitizing civic design resources for accessible remote learning, inspired by public library models.
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The community prioritizes maintaining a feasible monthly cadence of meetings to keep engagement sustainable.
Notable Quotes
"I learned a lot and felt the excitement from a lot of people into the community."
"We looked at all of our projects as a collective, focusing on form design and voter registration language access."
"I'm focused on capacity building in the public sector around human-centered design for executives and leadership."
"It's surprisingly hard to hire product managers and designers in government; I'm working to unblock system-level barriers."
"What would universal design mean for communications, like creating a podcast that also serves visually impaired audiences?"
"I'm developing a left-centered relational design workshop targeting May to shift mindset to complex systems thinking."
"People want more practical case studies showing how specific teams approached problems and what they learned."
"We enjoy networking moments and would love to keep up one-to-one exchanges, like through Donuts pairing."
"For the Civic Design Library, we're exploring electronic checkouts so people can access resources from home."
"Protecting my time is something everyone can empathize with at the moment."
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