Co-design Partnership
Golf In Society
We partnered with Golf In Society to explore the challenges facing older adults and their carers, and co-design a service blueprint envisioning golf clubs as Health Hubs.
Design with, not for, your community
The best solutions come from understanding the people, systems and context around a challenge, and seeing how all things connect.
That's where we often stand out. Our experience in community development, user-centred research, strategy, creative thinking and digital design allows us to work confidently across different disciplines and perspectives.
We can help you understand people's needs, navigate complexity, see the bigger picture and turn insight into action.
Your team
Meet your service designers
When you work with Made Open on service design, you work directly with the two directors, Kathryn and Robert. Their experience, care and wisdom are brought directly to your challenge.
Kathryn Woolf
Service Designer
Kathryn is an experienced Service Designer, user researcher and Design Council Expert specialising in human-centred design. She works with…
Robert Woolf
Strategist / Service Designer
Robert is a strategist and service designer with over 25 years' experience helping organisations and communities create positive change. He…
What we do
Our approach
Platform consultation
We can help you work out which technologies and approaches will work best for your community and stakeholders.
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Research & engagement
We can help you uncover what matters to people, what’s getting in their way and where there’s potential to make a difference.
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Community design
Through creative workshops and expert facilitation, we can help you turn community needs and ideas into practical, effective solutions.
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Real stories from communities we've worked with.
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Design Out Drowning
Design Out Drowning was a community-led research project designed to help the RNLI reduce the risk of drowning around the UK and Republic of Ireland. Using co-design principles to improve water safety.
Design Council
Designing Communities
A Design Council initiative to ensure community voices genuinely shaped future plans. Using design-led approaches to co-create with communities and drive participatory change.
Torbay Community Development Trust
Imagine This
A National Lottery-funded partnership bringing local organisations together to improve the lives of children and young people in Torbay through an Ideas and Imagination festival.
"The festival exceeded our expectations. Every time we looked around all we could see were people huddled around activities, deep in thought, action and conversation."
What clients sayTrusted by public, private and
Trusted by public, private and
charity sectors
"It is a genuine breath of fresh air to work with Made Open. They have demonstrated what's possible when collaboration and practical problem-solving genuinely sit at the heart of a service."
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