Talk by Tori Flower at TEDxKCS. She shares insights from her background in advertising and as a designer for behaviour change, including the importance of looking at the world from the point of view of your customer and designing things people actually want.
Why Social Entrepreneurs Need to Be Better Than Their Commercial Counterparts
Successful commercial entrepreneurs have to prioritise building two types of value within their ventures: user value and financial value, but social entrepreneurs need all three.
From We Are What We Do to Shift: a new name for a different approach
Our work in behaviour change started 10 years ago, as a social movement that inspired people to use their everyday …
The 3 strands of value vital to social tech ventures
This article has been written by Nick Stanhope, CEO of We Are What We Do, and Dan Sutch, Head of …
Three values
On the surface, the language and practices of Silicon Valley and other tech investors have brought the social sector a greater focus on ventures, accelerators, fast-growth innovations, of startups, incubators and investment…
RSA Workshop: Designing ways to improve Everyday Wellbeing
Mental health is a major issue affecting the UK population. 25% of people in Britain will experience mental health problems every year…
Refining our social innovation model
In April, when we set out on our first year of our research and development partnership with the Nominet Trust, we had in place a pretty robust six stage social innovation model, which we had been evolving and refining over several years of work in behaviour change and product design…
Unconditional Leadership
David Robinson eloquently and honestly distils 35 years experience of starting and building inspiring local, national and international charities and social enterprises, drawing out lessons on unleashing people’s potential that have application across business and government.
I’m Still a Plastic Bag
Our 2007 I’m Not a Plastic Bag project with Anya Hindmarch was, at the time, hugely successful. We applied our product-centric …
A bit of new radicalism
It has been great for We Are What We Do to be included in the Britain’s New Radicals list, launched …
The Incidental Effect
Hello. This first one is going to be very short, because what it refers to is quite long and I …
Research
Designing products that empower parents
Insight report exploring the parenting journey, the associated feelings, thoughts, desires and behaviours, a review of the sources of support throughout. Plus …
Research
Driving continuous improvement: Insights from funding social tech
Commentable version here. Report giving a set of 5 insights and 8 practical recommendations on how funders and social organisations can …
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5 ways to use the Social, User & Financial Value Model for social innovation
Paper by Nick Stanhope, in partnership with The Nominet Trust, exploring five specific ways in which the Social, User & …
Research
Taking a User-Centered Design Approach with the US National Archives
Historypin began working with the US National Archives in 2014 to take a user-centered design approach to cultural heritage and …
Research
Survey of products and services which promote wellbeing
Evidence for interventions to improve wellbeing (mindfulness, gratitudes, awe and optimism) and examples of products and services which facilitate these. …
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Survey of Existing Consumer Products and Services which Reduce Food Waste
Report broken down by the six stages in the domestic food cycle including summary highlighting common themes and relative effectiveness, …
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The Incidental Effect
Paper exploring new methods in behaviour change.By Nick Stanhope
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Reconnecting
Paper exploring new methods in behaviour change. David Robinson