Human-centered design for human-centered work.
About Seedfolk
Seedfolk Partners is a social venture consulting group dedicated to bringing human-centered design (or Design Thinking) to social impact systems and initiatives, including school systems, non-profits, foundations, civic organizations, and socially-minded businesses.
Our Mission
Seedfolk specializes in applying human-centered design to solve real challenges, train leaders and educators, and launch innovation programs and initiatives.
Human-centered design (aka “design thinking”) is a problem-solving framework based on empathy and iteration—generating better solutions, more stakeholder buy-in, and more flexible mindsets from those who employ it.
What We Do for You
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We will facilitate design thinking for every challenge, with every age group.
Hire us to facilitate:
innovation challenges
organizational planning
internal problem-solving
community design sessions
redesign initiatives
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We train leaders and educators in design thinking so that they can apply it to their own contexts and facilitate it with others. We specialize in user adoption of design thinking methodologies.
Hire us to train and coach the following professions in the application of design thinking:
teachers
administrators
after-school program facilitators
aspiring entrepreneurs
workforce development professionals
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We utilize design thinking to do the human-centered work needed to make visions come to life.
Hire us to get a project off the ground
We provide fractional or short-term support to launch an initiative or design a program.
Recommended Reading
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What is Design Thinking and Why is it Important?
In an age when innovation is key to business success and growth, you’ve likely come across the term “design thinking.”
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Why Design Thinking Works
While we know a lot about practices that stimulate new ideas, innovation teams often struggle to apply them. Why? Because people’s biases and entrenched behaviors get in the way.
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What is Human-Centered Design (HCD)?
Human-centered design is a practice where designers focus on four key aspects. They focus on people and their context.
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Design Thinking Has a Pedagogy Problem… And a Way Forward
Design thinking requires practice and continual learning to master, so how can we teach it effectively?
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Why Entrepreneurship Might Save Our Kids—and the Rest of Us.
We need to be asking our students “How did you put your ideas into the world today?”.
