Resources

This page provides a wealth of resources to help you learn methods for human-centered design, find out about the latest technology related to the challenges, and get answers to your frequently asked questions.

D4SD Process Guide

Design for San Diego

Modeled after best practices in human-centered design research, the D4SD process involves five key phases: Discovery, Ideate, Prototype, Pitch, Activate. Read more about how you and your team can get the most out of each phase.

Stakeholder Relationships

Design for San Diego

Good civic design involves understanding the diverse perspectives of many stakeholders, including people directly and indirectly impacted by a problem or opportunity. This guide can help D4SD participants establish and cultivate community relationships.

External references

The D4SD team, working with our educator alliance, has collected a series of resources to help you and your team innovate on the D4SD challenges. For a more complete and up-to-date list of resources, please see the following Google Sheet. If you have a design or data-related resource to share, please submit them on this Google Form.

Asking the right questions and solving the right problem.

UX Collective

Conducting inclusive user research

UX Collective

Design for Worldview

Stanford d.school

Rethinking thinking

TED-Ed

Affinity mapping strategies

Jessie Drumm

A comprehensive process to design for social innovation

Design for America

Learn how to quickly get your ideas on paper and share them with others

Google for Startups

Methods to help design social innovation solutions

DIY Toolkits

Quickly evaluate your team’s ideas with rapid ideation and testing

Inside Design by InVision

Apply user testing techniques to gain insights about your solution

Career Foundry

Tactical Urbanism Strategies

Learn how to transfer your sketches to a digital platform without coding

Google for Startups

Urban Street Design

NATCO

Digital Accessibility Guide

Content Stack

Elevator Pitch

Slidebean

Social Innovation

Social Innovator Series

Developing Community Assets

Depaul ABCD

Blind spots: Challenge assumptions

PwC

Interviewing techniques

MJV Technology & Innovation

Tips for conducting interviews

IfD_Qualitative Research Specialists

Testing and capturing feedback

DavidLeeEdTech

UN Sustainability Goals – Data

San Diego, County

Our World in Data

Mixed

San Diego, County Data Portal

San Diego, County

California State Data Portal

California, State

California State Department of Transportation – Data

California, State

California State Department of Transportation – Data

California, State

UN Databases

Global

San Diego Mobility Data

Moovit Insights

UCSD Transportation, Commute, and Parking surveys

US Census – Data