Co-Creation Toolkit for Environmental Services

Create user-friendly and effective environmental data services. This toolkit provides the resources and guidance you need to collaborate with users, gather insights, and co-design solutions that work.

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Case Studies

Take a look below at some of the case studies showcasing how different ux methods can be used to address environmental data challenges.

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Devon Design Sprint

Design Sprint Co-Creation User Testing

In a five-day workshop, Devon stakeholders teamed up to prototype a land use decision tool with a focus on carbon impact.

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Multi-Organisation Content Management System for Hazard Data

Prototyping Hazard Data User Research

We designed a platform prototype to simplify global hazard monitoring, incorporating user feedback to refine the design.

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Co-Creation Toolkit

Explore our collection of helpful UX resources, including persona templates, interview guides, and product requirement documents.

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Planning User Research

User Research Interviews

Planning is a critical step in the process of conducting user research. You can use the below template to help you plan your research.

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Creating Prototypes

Prototyping User Testing

Prototyping is a crucial method in co-design process. A prototype is a simplified and basic version of the final product. It allows stakeholders to interact with and give feedback on its features and functionalities.

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Best Practices for Decision Support Tools

Decision Support Tools Best Practices Design Guidelines

A guidance document to improve the design and development of decision support tools (DSTs) within our organisation.

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Choosing Scientific Methods

Scientific Methods Decision Support Tools Data Analysis

Common scientific methods used in the decision support tools and how to choose the most appropriate one for your project.

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"Pay attention to what users do, not whay they say."

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Jakob Nielsen Usability Pioneer and Co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group

How Can This Toolkit Help You?

This toolkit equips you with practical methods and real-world examples to guide you through the co-design process for environmental data products and services. Whether you're starting from scratch or looking to refine an existing project, these resources will empower you to:

Understand Your Users

Learn proven techniques for gathering insights into the needs, behaviors, and pain points of your target audience.

Design Effective Solutions

Discover methods for translating user insights into user-friendly and impactful environmental data products and services.

Test and Refine

Explore approaches for evaluating your solutions with users, gathering feedback, and iterating for continuous improvement.

Facilitate Collaboration

Learn how to build strong partnerships with stakeholders throughout the design process, ensuring diverse perspectives are included.

Other Useful Resources

Below you can find some resources that can help you with the user research and design.

Wireframes and Design Guides for Geospatial Data Portals
Guidance for developers and designers to increase the discoverability and usefulness of geospatial data through user-focused data portals.
Best Practices for Decision Support Tools
Best practices and guidelines for creating effective decision support tools (DSTs).
Personas in Product Design
Personas are representations of user groups whom we expect to use our products. They help to convey information about the users to the product team.
Turing Way Handbook
The Turing Way is a handbook to reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science.
Nielsen Norman Group
The Nielsen Norman Group website is a valuable resource for UX professionals, offering guidance and training to improve the user experience of products through co-design.

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We are a collective of passionate individuals driven by a shared goal: to use UX methods and practices to make environmental data more usable, accessible, and impactful.

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This toolkit is designed for anyone involved in creating environmental data services and products, including researchers, developers, designers, and project managers.