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Berkeley Public Library: All-Staff Day
Berkeley Public Library’s team hosted a All-Staff Day in September, 2023 that they wanted to be rooted in Human-Centered Design…
Design Phases: Co-Create
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CivicMakers Team Strategy Jam
The CivicMakers Team gathered together for what we called a Team Strategy Jam on Monday, June 12th, at our office…
![Team photo outside in a park on sunny day with plants in the background. Seven people stand in a row with their arms around each other. From left to right: Julian Gunter, Judi Brown, Brittany Henry, Eva Mas, Cristelle Blackford, Leah Tremblay-Adams, Kyle Wicks.]()
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Surfacing Insights from State Employees
The CivicMakers Team has been working with a state agency over the past six months to better understand how multiple…
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Kicking Off the Workforce Transformation Corps!
The Workforce Transformation Corps The CivicMakers Team is honored to support the ambitious Workforce Transformation Strategy of Jobs For the…
![Virginia Hamilton and a kick-off participant are standing with their backs to camera, facing a wall of sticky notes that are labeled ‘skills we want to learn!’]()
Case Study
Project SPARC
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A resource library for sharing our tools with you
To our community of civic designers–and our community members who don't yet see themselves as designers–we're excited to announce the…
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Stakeholder Identification
Last Updated: November, 2021 A key step to engaging the humans in human-centered design is identifying your stakeholders. This framework…
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Survey Design
Last Updated: November, 2021 Surveys can be a powerful data collection method when we want a high quantity of Responses,…
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Interview Protocol
Last Updated: November, 2021 The Stakeholder Interview is one of the most powerful tools in the human-centered design toolbox. Interviews…
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Case Study
San Francisco ‘SF Shines’ Program Evaluation and Implementation
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California Health & Human Services Innovation Lab
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San Francisco Recreation and Open Space Element (ROSE) Evaluation
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