Human-Centered Design Toolkit

Gold Award
Category: Design Strategy
Client: International Development Enterprises (U.S.); Heifer International (U.S.); International Center for Research on Women; and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (U.S.)
Design: Tatyana Mamut, Jessica Hastings, Fidel Calderon, Scott Tong, and Sandy Speicher, IDEO (U.S.)

The Human-Centered Design Toolkit empowers NGOs and social enterprises in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to address smallholder farmer needs. The toolkit (comprising print and online elements) leads groups through a process of fieldwork and data analysis, idea generation and prototyping, and implementation planning. Ultimately, the kit and the open-source effort it inspired work to better the lives of those in the developing world surviving on less than $2 a day.