Here are a collection of resources I have been collecting for design for emerging markets / design for social impact. I’ll be updating them from time to time and if anyone has any to add please post into the comments.
Social Design Projects
- Samasource
- Hippo Roller
- World Bike
- Darfur Stoves
- ViewChange.org
- Ushahidi
- Meedan
- 1% Program
- Project run
- D-Lab Projects
- Google Health Speaks
Articles and Presentations
- Design Thinking for Social Innovation – Stanford Social Innovation Review
- How to Design for Social Impact – IDEO
- 8 Lessons for Creating Social impact by Robert Fabricant
Books
- Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
- Out of Poverty
- Design Revolution
- The Wayfinders
- Third Culture Kids
- Design for the Real World
- The Power of Unreasonable People
Social Design Companies
Social Design Collectives
- openIDEO
- The Hub
- Design 21
- Social Capital Markets – The intersection of Money and Meaning
- Social Edge
- Acumen Fund
- Changemakers
- GoodCompany Ventures
- bigBang! – Social Innovation in Texas
- Unreasonable Institute
- Design for the other 90%
- Project H
- The Extraordinaries
- Echoing Green
Social Design Tools
- Open Source Web Design
- Logo design – Open Source Pbworks
- IDEO Human Centered Toolkit
- Social Return on Investment
