Introduction to ‘The Design’

This page will give you access to the various stages of the design of the Powering Up programme. This will include:

• initial insight gathering to identify the problems that community businesses were facing
• the design approach for the initial pilot in 2020
• the design approach for scaling up Powering Up from the pilot.

Our approach to design:

Guided by the Design Council’s - Double Diamond and Framework for Innovation. See below or more details here - https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-resources/framework-for-innovation/

This work by the Design Council is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Initial Discovery Insights:

Insight gathering for the digital needs of community businesses

Delivered by Think Social Tech (May 2021) - Nissa Ramsey

User Insights: Our Potential Becoming: Enhancing Digital & Financial Capabilities in Community Businesses

Design process:

Powering Up 1.0 - Summary of design approach April 2020

This is an overview of the design sprint we did for the initial pilot, which informed the scaled up version of Powering Up.