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Women-Centric Design

A toolkit for impact practitioners to build products, services & systems that center women.

2024
women, toolkits

Design Trust for Public Space

Unlocking the potential of New York’s public spaces.

New York City
2015
city, housing, mental health, public space, Sustainable cities and communities

Design for America Studios

Studios are nodes of community, design education, and localized impact within university campuses across the U.S.

Chicago, IL
students

Deceptive Patterns

A taxonomy of deceptive design patterns, laws, cases, reading list, hall of shame, and Deceptive Patterns book

London
2010
guides

PUNCHUP

We create meaningful conversation with data + design + story.

No. 1 Building, 6th Floor, Soi Patpong, 1 Surawong Rd, Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500

Chicago Digital Services Team

The Digital Services team works to make city services more accessible and inclusive for Chicago residents. It’s our mission to listen, amplify, and design with the community to build better technology experiences for everyone.

Chicago, IL
city, Sustainable cities and communities
https://penpot.app/ActiveOpen-source

Penpot

Penpot is the Open-Source Design & Prototyping Tool for Product Teams (Figma alternative)

Europe

GOV.UK Design System

Use this design system to make government services consistent with GOV.UK. Learn from the research and experience of other service teams and avoid repeating work that’s already been done.

UK
United Kingdom (government)

Deceptive Design Resources

Case studies, blog posts, and Airtables with examples