This guide is here to help you design better

It was developed by https://portable.com.au/, a design and innovation agency based in Melbourne, to support VicHealth’s VLGP Capacity Support Program.

You can use this guide to learn about and facilitate human-centred design and co-design projects in your community. It includes instructions, templates and resources to help you facilitate human-centred design and co-design projects and activities, to help you better design programs and services with stakeholders, users, council and community.

How to use this guide

This guide is designed to take you through the process of human-centred design and co-design from beginning to end.

• On each page you'll have links that guide you through the modules.
• If you already know a bit about about co-design or you know what you are looking for in the guide, you can use the Practice guide menu below to navigate.
• Where you see a header with a ▶️ next to it, this indicates a drop down with additional content underneath the header.
• You’ll see different coloured boxes with key information to support your learning:

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Learn more

Throughout the guide you’ll see yellow boxes with links to external websites, additional resources and templates if you want to learn more about human-centred design and design activities.

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Key takeaways

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What’s next: The blue boxes will help you navigate through the sections of the guide, and point you to relevant tools to support your practice

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This practice guide and toolkit covers the stages of a design project, following the Double Diamond framework

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Before you start: Co-design foundations

Co-design toolkit index

Module 1: Planning

Module 2: Discovery