Design Strategy

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Design Strategy includes Design Strategy and Design Thinking and Multidisciplinary Design. The category focuses on the integration of design as a strategic business capability across all areas of a business’ operations that allows the firm to be more innovative and to grow.

2025 Best in Category

Plan for Victoria: Co-Designing the State’s Future with Young People

YLab / Victorian Department of Transport and Planning

2025 Finalists

Co-Creating Space: Transforming Paediatric Hospital Play Through Interactive HCI Technologies

Starlight Children's Foundation / Kirsten Ellis / Jacqueline Johnstone / Madhuka Koralalage Dona / Xuan You (Shen) Tan / Troy Mcgee

Connected Experience

Department of Education , Digital Design and Innovation Branch

Designing Collaborations to Remake Waste: A Blueprint for Fashion Businesses

Julia English

Holding Space

Jirra Harvey / Apryl Day / Garuwa / YIRRAMBOI Festival / Cummeragunja Housing and Development Aboriginal Corporation / Moth Design

Maximizing the Adoption of AI for Plain Language Across Government

Melanie Leggiero / Danielle Joughin / Dave Stephens / Aimee Miller

2024 Best in Category

Office of Public Prosecutions - Digital Transformation Program - Amicus

Office of Public Prosecutions (OPP) / Digital Transformation Program Team

2024 Finalists

A Vehicle for Co-Design: Designing an Accessible Makervan with People with Intellectual Disabilities

Monash University Human-Centred Computing / Monash University / Wallara Australia

M&M’s Display Ready Packaging

Birdstone Collective / Mars Wrigley

MARAM Maturity Model

Paper Giant / Family Services Victoria

Office of Public Prosecutions - Digital Transformation Program - Amicus

Office of Public Prosecutions (OPP) / Digital Transformation Program Team

Product Aware

Isabella Peppard / Australian Architects Declare

TapeBlocks: Accessible creative electronics for people with disabilities

Associate Professor Kirsten Ellis, Human-Centred Computing, Monash University

2023 Best in Category

Fashion Futuring: A speculative toolkit to spark imagination and provoke a values-driven transition towards sustainability

clarice garcia

2023 Finalists

A Practical Guide to a Whole-of-Council Model for Preventing Family Violence and all Forms of Violence against Women

Designed by Nous Group / Commissioned by Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing / Implementation partner: Municipal Association of Victoria / Visual Design by Narelle Sullivan