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.

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 Toolkit

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

Co-Creating an Equitable and Inclusive Future for Football with Nike Pacific

Today / Nike

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

clarice garcia

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Monash Sensory Science

Rossjohn Laboratory / Swinburne Interaction Design Lab

The One Stop One Story (OSOS) Hub

Thriving Communities Partnership / Infoxchange / Community Partners / Essential Services / Regulators / Ombudsman

2022 Best in Category

Tram Lab Toolkits

La Trobe University / Monash University XYX Lab / RMIT University

2022 Finalists

CY HOPE: A new HOPE for the mental health and wellbeing of young Victorians Co-design support package

Portable and the Victorian Department of Health

RetroFit Kit: Design Tools for Making Our Homes Accessible

Monash Urban Lab / Australian Human Rights Commission

SEED/ing Transformative Change

Lisa Grocott / Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University / Design for Social Responsibility Series, Routledge / Wendy Ellerton

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Solid Lines

Emrhan Tjapanangka Sultan / Dr Nicola St John / The Jacky Winter Group

Tram Lab Toolkits

La Trobe University / Monash University XYX Lab / RMIT University

2021 Best in Category

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Web Foundation Online Gender Based Violence

World Wide Web Foundation / Craig Walker / Feminist Internet

2021 Finalists

Emergency Department Futures

Troy McGee / Monash University Design Health Collab / Daphne Flynn / Selby Coxon / Keith Joe / Cabrini Emergency Department

Hobsons Bay Civic Centre - for Hobsons Bay City Council

GroupGSA / Hobsons Bay City Council

Jacky Winter Statement of Commitment

The Jacky Winter Group / Emhran Tjapanangka Sultan / Coree Thorpe / Nicola St John

The Working Brain

GroupGSA

You Me and Money Preventing economic abuse in young adult relationships

Today / RMIT University School of Economics / YLab / Ecstra Foundation

HIGHLY COMMENDED

YourGround

Monash University, Art Design & Architecture, XYX Lab / Crowdspot

2020 Best in Category

Bundyi Girri for Business

2020 Finalists

Bundyi Girri for Business

City of Melbourne, COVID-19 Reactivation and Recovery Plan

City of Melbourne

Co-designing an urgent response to mental health and wellbeing needs during the COVID-19 pandemic

Paper Giant / Beyond Blue

Human-Centred Design Playbook

Mathan Ratinam / Sophie Turner / Peta Fawcett

Rethinking Supreme Court access

Paper Giant / Supreme Court Victoria

2019 Best in Category

Moonee Ponds Creek Strategic Opportunities Plan

McGregeor Coxall / City Of Melbourne / Wave Consulting

2019 Finalists

408 Smith

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Ballarat Creative City Strategy

City of Ballarat

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Marngo Designing Futures

Dr Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek, Program Coordinator, Marngo Designing Futures / Deputy Chair, Communication Design Swinburne School of Design

Moonee Ponds Creek Strategic Opportunities Plan

McGregeor Coxall / City Of Melbourne / Wave Consulting

State Library of Victoria Professional Development Program

ThinkPlace / State Library of Victoria

Using Design Thinking to Reimagine the Way We See Secondhand

The Reimaginarium

VITAL SIGNS – Alternative Futures

Various

Worksafe

Isobar / Worksafe

2018 Best in Category

International Indigenous Design Charter

2018 Finalists

No entries found.

2017 Best in Category

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City of Melbourne Single Digital Customer Interface

City of Melbourne / Today

2017 Finalists

No entries found.

2016 Best in Category

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Indigenous Placemaking Strategy for Ngarara Place at RMIT University

Greenaway Architects / Harris HMC / Charles Solomon (Garawana Creative) / Aroha Groves

2016 Finalists

No entries found.

2015 Best in Category

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Placing Melbourne at the Forefront of Sustainability

Advantage Engineering / Ideation / Morning Coffee

2015 Finalists

No entries found.

2014 Best in Category

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Quirkii Paper Products

Jalapeno Creative / Ausinc

2014 Finalists

No entries found.