Design & innovation toolkits
A curated list of the best innovation, design and business toolkits, from some of the most innovative organisations and institutions.
Accessibility for Teams
A ‘quick-start’ guide for embedding accessibility and inclusive design practices into your team’s workflow.
Actionable Futures Toolkit
A practice proven toolkit made to work for you in building and aligning a future for an organisation, service or a product.
CMD Methods Pack
This pack supports your design research planning in any communication and media design (CMD) project.
Critiquing Design
What if design critique didn’t suck? What if it actually improved design and fostered inclusion instead?
Digital Services Playbook
We created a playbook of 13 key “plays” that, if followed together, will help government build effective digital services.
Emotion Centered Design
This lookbook offers a glance at the tools and methods used throughout an Emotion-Centered Design (ECD) practice.
Ethical OS
A guide to anticipating the future impact of today's technology. Or: How not to regret the things you will build.
Ethics for designers
A toolkit for designers to help you uncover, explore and discuss the ethical aspects of your designs.
Futuremaker's Toolbox
Are you missing a long-term goal? This toolbox will help you to outline the future and build a vision towards a better tomorrow.
Humane by Design
Humane by Design is a resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane digital products through patterns focused on user well-being.
Hyper Island Toolbox
A resource kit you can use to apply creative collaboration and unleash potential in your team or organization.
Initiate.Collaborate
A card game that takes players through a series of practical, guided activities and exercises that are crafted to delight, surprise, and at times challenge.
Lean Service Creation
Create lovable services. Modernize and improve your ways of working. Build a culture that fosters growth and learning.
Liberating Structures
A menu of thirty-three Liberating Structures to replace or complement conventional practices. Liberating Structures used routinely make it possible to build the kind of organization that everybody wants. They are designed to include everyone in shaping next steps.
NOBL Academy
NOBL Academy is our library of tools, case studies, essays, and trainings designed to help you bring your culture together during an unprecedented time of uncertainty.
Nesta Toolkits
A wide range of toolkits, guides and blueprints covering all kinds of topics, including civic engagement, artificial intelligence, climate change, creativity and more.
Open Design Kit
A living collection of guides and best practices to help you to make and design openly.
Open Innovation Toolkit
This 30-piece toolkit covers the whole open innovation journey from setting a strategy for collaboration to implementing mutually beneficial business models
Pa11y
Here at Pa11y, we think making the web more accessible improves it for everyone. So we publish a range of free and open source tools to help designers and developers make their web pages more accessible:
Project of How
Project of How is a place to store and share creative methods. We dare you to improve your creative output.
Systemic Design Toolkit
Systemic Design Toolkit helps you co-create interventions to tackle organisational and societal complexity.
The A11Y Project
Accessibility can be a complex and difficult topic. The Accessibility Project understands this and wants to help make it easier to implement on the web.
The Creative Innovation Toolbox
How can we tap into our own creativity and that inherent in an organization?
The Design Sprint
The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers.
The Teamwork Kit
A collection of methods that helps teams build trust and deliver great work together.
This is Service Design Doing
54 hands-on descriptions that help you DO the key methods used in service design.
Tools for taking action
We’ve curated a collection of resources from our classes and workshops for you to explore.