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Tools are ways of helping you do something better. Tools have been designed to help you develop new ideas, understand innovation, and guide you through the design process.

The tools we have developed are grouped into three areas to help you create ideas, actions and results.


Intangibuild
Design Atlas: a tool for auditing design capability
Posters for students to generate ideas
Innovation in Business
Design in Parliament
 
These tools help you have new ideas. They are designed to enable you to understand and take actions to:

generate and capture new ideas

create a culture of innovation

sense what your customer really needs in order to generate new ideas

understand your strengths and weaknesses in design and innovation

understand the advantages that design and innovation will bring to you

Teaching resources for Better by Design TV Series
Your Creative Future
Design Against Crime
Exploring Design and Innovation microsite
Government Design Toolkit
 
Actions - are Tools that help you turn your ideas and opportunities into reality. They help you go forward with your idea to develop and design an output. These tools help you:

managing design within projects, identifying stakeholders, users, problems and the criteria for success, through all aspects of design and development

coordinate design activity across an organisation

identifying and strengthening the underlying brand values of organisations and customers

make design decisions, whether choosing designers or making design decisions across organisations

E business by design for photo-imaging companies
 
Tools that help make the most of what you produce and improve the quality of implementation, and include:

coordination of design across your organisation

bringing brand values to the on line experience

designing the customer experience

evaluation and feed back