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
- Hippo Roller
- World Bike
- Darfur Stoves
- ViewChange.org
- Ushahidi
- Meedan
- 1% Program
- Project run
- D-Lab Projects
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
- 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
Social Design Tools
- Open Source Web Design
- Logo design – Open Source Pbworks
- IDEO Human Centered Toolkit
- Social Return on Investment
Published in Ambidextrous
My article for the Stanford Journal of Design – Ambidexterous – has finally been published! Ambi has been one of my favorite publications on design for years and it’s real honor to be part of it. If you’re interested in the real world of design (behind all the shiny objects and pretty pictures) I would highly recommend getting a subscription.
You can either download the pdf of my article here or buy the whole magazine at ambidexterous.org