Design Academy
Helping your organisation to design new solutions to the challenges you face.
Do you want a better return for your organisation, be more effective, higher satisfaction?
Design Academy can help.
During our Designing Demand project businesses found that for every £1 they spent on design, they saw a £20 increase in revenue. Design Academy can help your colleagues solve professional challenges through the proven technique of design thinking.
Each Design Academy is tailor made to the needs of your organisation, as we know solutions are not a one-size-fits-all. Our network of diverse, cross-disciplinary experts use our world-famous design tools to increase an understanding of how design can be used to solve your organisation's challenges.
The academies are highly interactive; using a mixture of in-person interactive workshops taught by our experts and also a virtual learning environment that supplements these workshops, linking design theory with the real-life application.
With the Design Academy, participants will:
- Increase their understanding of the value and importance of good design and how they can use and support it in their professional roles
- Learn to think and work differently, including how to work better in harmony and use sustainable approaches
- Be able to better use Design for Planet thinking to address the uncertainties of climate change
- Help improve stakeholder relationships and develop a deeper understanding of audience needs
Want to bring Design Academy to your organisation?
Discover our Design Academy for Network Rail
In 2023, approximately 1,500 million train journeys relied on Network Rail as stewards of the railway estate to plan for the future. By upskilling employees and fostering a culture of strategic design, Network Rail is better positioned to identify, commission, and deliver good design.
Since 2022, we’ve delivered five cohorts of nearly 100 colleagues across the country, of which 92% reported increased confidence in promoting good design. From launching an internal design review service focused on sustainability to organising innovative initiatives like the Graduate Dragon’s Den, participants are using design skills to spearhead positive change at every level.
Watch the film to see what the participants had to say and how it helped them develop.
