Tools & Frameworks
We produce frameworks for good design processes, which can be used by designers and non-designers to work together to solve challenges and create opportunities.
The Design Council’s Double Diamond is the most used design framework in the world and embedded in design education across the globe. We continue to push the thinking on new models and frameworks, with our Systemic Design Framework and System Shifting Design released in 2021.
The Design Value Framework
9 June 2022
As part of our Design Economy research, we have developed a framework for designers and commissioners to identify and assess the wider social, environmental and democratic impacts of their work.
Systems-shifting design report
19 October 2021
System Shifting Design (October 2021) sets out emerging practice observed from designers who are working to deliberately and generatively to create new systems of health, wellbeing, homes and community. These designers are...
Beyond Net Zero: A Systemic Design Approach
22 April 2021
The Systemic Design Framework, launched by Design Council in April 2021, has been developed to help designers working on major complex challenges that involve people across different disciplines and sectors. It places our people...
Framework for Innovation: Design Council's evolved Double Diamond
17 May 2019
Design Council’s framework for innovation helps designers and non-designers across the globe tackle some of the most complex social, economic and environmental problems. It is a fundamental part of our work: enabling us to support...
Inclusive Environments
1 April 2018
The Inclusive Environments programme at the Design Council aims to raise awareness about the importance of designing places that meet the needs of the diversity of people who want to use them. Designing and managing the built...