Social Design?
Learn about Social Design, Word-breakdown structures, New business-models and other thought rants this morning.
March 15, 2023
Co-design Sunday at 14:00 UCT.
Join our online co-creation event and ideate a new
solution for the broken News format together.
Master co-creation tools you can use in your work tomorrow.
It's time for meaningful
business development.
Explore and design interactive content.
Content Designers craft and deploy interactive content that guide people to their goals.
Learn to design transitional interfaces and become AI, Mixed Reality and blockchain ready in the process.
Edtech Challenges
Where are we now?
- Human Centered Design turns people into users.
- Separates utility and education.
- Self-disciplined learning.
- Build as functional application.
- Individual learning.
- Does not account for mental state.
- Tracks course progression.
- Build in pages.
- Focus on technology.
Where do we want to go?
- Assistant Centered Design turns people in actors.
- Combines utility, education and hospitality.
- Guided learning and difficulty adjustments.
- Designed as hospitable assistant.
- Social learning.
- Private environment for mental state.
- Tracks wellbeing, effort, and knowledge progression.
- Designed as resumable digital conversations.
- Focuses on best learning practises.
The best way to Humanize Society is by reimagining our wallets for true social impact.
Are we going to design money that enslaves or empowers society?
* 61% of customers expect businesses to delivery personal and collective wellbeing benefits – Havas.
The best way to Humanize Society is by reimagining our wallets for true social impact.
Are we going to design money that enslaves or empowers society?
* 61% of customers expect businesses to delivery personal and collective wellbeing benefits – Havas.
Meaning is good for business*, co-design Conversational Apps using digital storytelling.
* 61% of customers expect businesses to delivery personal and collective wellbeing benefits – Havas.
Co-create Assistants for real-world problems.
Let's humanize our software together.
Let's design Assistants that advance humanity.
If we want to make the world a better place, we need to take a stance in the digital space and design assistants for individual and collective development goals.
We never learned to build software for Society.
You become your best self by helping others. So let's build software that assists and empowers us in our daily lives.
Everyone has a role to play in the new Social Appstore.
Instead of solving problems with technology we need to build social technology to help us solve (wicked) problems.
ASSISTANT CENTERED DESIGN
Turns users into actors.
Map and build interactive content that pushes and nudges people into action.
Make your content actionable.
Strengthen yourself and your organisation with purpose and meaning, embrace Assistant Centered Design, and build Interactive Content that delivers value from the first moment of contact.
It’s time that we rethink our software design, because our linear flows and static content are no match for our complex world anymore.
The biggest flaw in todays software design is that we don’t respect the effort and energy of people. It’s time for social responsibility in our software as well.
Page-based software design and blockchain are no match.
If we want to prepare our web3 wallets and platforms for family and friends (mass adoption), we need to rethink our software design for blockchain from the ground up.
Our current web2 software is broken.
We are so used to giving away our energy and attention, that we became accustomed to being the product. Nothing is free, as our data is being sold to someone that might live next door. We spend 4-6 hours on our phones, and our attention is being farmed daily. We are seriously addicted to our technology and services, but what is the true positive impact on our lives?
Design research is being transformed into a new educational program.
Social Design Academy is doing ongoing design research on how we can humanize and democratize our web3 software design so it declutters and positively impacts our daily lives.
Haun Ventures called web3: “Software-driven innovation that has a built-in financial system.” We believe that web3 should be a social conversation-driven protocol that entangles principles, value, and incentives in new interactive content formats.
There is a lot to unlearn, relearn and unpack. Distributed Design is our paradigm of choice, as it holds the most promise to converge our energy into Collective Genius that gives us new tools to solve the crisis we are facing today.
The first three steps in changing our design attitude towards web3?
1. Colonial Design vs Liberating Design; Become aware of your current design culture.
2. Change your Design Perspective; Transition from human-centered design to assistant-centered design, as human-centered design separates people into groups/tribes.
3. Remediate our Interfaces; Transition from page-based interaction design to conversational interaction design. Making sound money actionable means that we need to align the social and financial layers.
Let's make web3 ready for family and friends by embracing
ASSISTANT CENTERED DESIGN
Build hospitable assistants that guide people to their goals based on digital storytelling, digital wayfinding, and interactive content.
Wallet Design Program
Design digital conversations instead of pages.
Our current wallets focus on unlocking features our blockchains provide. But if we want to provide social infrastructure for interactive content and digital governance, we need to step up our game.
We need to rethink our wallet interactions from the ground up. To deliver user-friendly and trustworthy experiences we need to build novel social infrastructure that delivers use cases based on time, location and context.
We developed a new design approach called Conversational Interaction Design combine digital storytelling, digital way finding and interactive content in wallets, so walled can seamlessly self-onboard family and friends.
On Top
Recent Stories
Future Design
Social Design Research
A selection of slides and insights from our In-wallet onboarding social design research.
March 12, 2023
Commonism: A Path to Collective Well-being
In a world marked by stark inequality, environmental degradation, and social fragmentation, it is increasingly evident that the current economic and political systems are failing
February 11, 2023
We need to rethink our cryptocurrency wallet design for mass adoption
Introduction Blockchain is a new design paradigm that aims to make the world a better place by bringing ownership of cryptographic money to the people.
February 3, 2023
We need to rethink how we embed digital money and build fair technology for society.
Social Design Academy We facilitate educational experiences and co-creation events with Agencies, Impactful Brands & Cities that want to design a fairer digital world. We
December 29, 2022
Digital Governance Design
Conversational Governance Design Co-design and monetize digital storytelling, self-governance, and interactive content, bringing collective decision-making into our digital networks. Our centralized governance models are too
December 28, 2022
Humanize & Democratize our Brands, Software and Way of Working.
Social Design Culture
Who you involve in decision making and how you innovate is all connected to how you design. Knowing where you are today opens the discussion for your future profile. Identity the authentic self for your organisation and take a stance in the digital space.
Social UX/UI
Build real social software around human activities and daily routines and build value for ever. Standardise problem sensing for all your stakeholders and Map social experiences instead of functional reactive software. Humanize your software so you become a genuinely interested in what people want and need.
Co-design & Co-creation
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Inwallet Onboarding for ADAholders
PROJECT CATALYST / DESIGN RESEARCH
Making cryptocurrency ready for family and friends.
Interactive content is the way forward
We assessed current cryptocurrency wallet design patterns and rebuild them into their conversational counterpart. This resulted into a remediation from static pages into transitional and interactive conversations.
This design research shows that by rethinking our static wallet design into interactive conversations, we can create a trust worthy access-point for family and friends.
SOCIAL DESIGN ACADEMY
Become a Governance Experience Designer
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Innovation starts where cognitive diversity collides.
For whom?
Social Design Academy connects and trains digital product designers and organisations that take digital social responsibility to solve real-world problems. We often look inwards in our organisation when it comes to problem-solving, but creating, deploying and measuring interactive content enables us to achieve true social impact and find new virtual revenue streams by looking outwards.
Make information actionable through interactive content design.
We still separate education and application in our daily lives. But change is too fast, so our legacy methods can't keep up. By bringing information and decision-making into our digital networks we can discover new ways to achieve true social impact.
Sign up today and build next-gen interactive content together.
FORM GUIDE How would you describe yourself? A Business Analyst, Outlier, Designer or Customer? Our motto Everybody is a designer.
Our current educational projects
Rebuild as Assistant
In this course you will learn how to redesign an application into an assistant. Our current software is impolite, assumes too much, and is not situational aware. Instead of page-based interaction, level-up your experience design and master Conversational Interaction Design; Design digital conversations instead of pages.
Social UX Practitioner (Soon)
There are a lot of new collaboration tools, but without a design system that every participant understands, co-creating is very hard. Master the Social UX/UI Basics and become a certified Social Experience Designer.
We turn software designers into change makers.
We are moving from a creators economy to economy creators. Choose for moral imagination and learn to become a governance experience designer for web3.
DESIGN CULTURE ASSESSMENT
"Say Hi, and assess your design culture with your team. It's fun an insightful."
Triangles of Truth
Building a collaborative design culture starts with assessing where you are today. A great conversation starter by placing hearts in triangles together. Because Truth is always a triangle. We'll setup a Miro board for you, and share it with you on the provided email address. Want us to facilitate the session for a group, let us know in your message below.
SOCIAL DESIGN ACADEMY
Become a Change maker and be the first to know about our next social design challenge.
