CO-DESIGN
In January 2021 a group of 25 rangatahi from the Growing Up in New Zealand study spent an action-packed four days working in teams with researchers, design and technology experts in a “co-design” process.
The project team partnered with the Co-design Lab, Rākau Tautoko and Merkle NZ (formerly Davanti) to plan and facilitate the workshop sessions. more text hereThe project team partnered with the Co-design Lab, Rākau Tautoko and Merkle NZ (formerly Davanti) to plan and facilitate the workshop sessions.The project team partnered with the Co-design Lab, Rākau Tautoko and Merkle NZ (formerly Davanti) to plan and facilitate the workshop sessions.
Budding researchers
As budding researchers, they explored the things that make their lives great and what questions they would ask their peers to find out how they are doing.
Question design
They then designed ways that these questions could be asked that would enable participants to take part from anywhere in the world, at any time, even in a pandemic!
“I enjoyed designing the app on the phone templates because I could use my imagination and get creative.”
Youth-Designed App: Secure, Warm, Friendly, and Epic Kiwiana Journeys
The young people helped to develop five different concepts for an interactive app. Key features were secure sign-in, sound, friendly avatars, and epic journeys of discovery which the children felt would help users of the app feel safe, curious and engaged. They told us how the app should look and feel, with preferences for a warm and friendly appearance grounded in nature and Kiwiana.
The children relished the opportunity to be leaders and take part in this co-design process.
