HBEH 748: Design Thinking for the Public Good
This guide is contains resources to support your work in HBEH 748: Design Thinking for the Public Good.
Doing research can be like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. Use these resources, research strategies, and frameworks to help slow down the information flow to a garden hose.
Want to talk about your project or have suggestions for this guide? Email Nancy or schedule a meeting!
Getting Started
Find e-books on human-centered design from the UNC Libraries at this link.
Other Specialized Guides that may help you:
- Social Lean Canvas:
If you're using the Lean Canvas model to organize your social innovation, this guide can help. It contains information sources organized on the Lean Canvas model. - Market Research Basics
Research strategies & information sources. You can transfer these market research strategies to many contexts. As you work through this tutorial, how can you translate the research strategies into language related to social innovation? E.g. "Finding competitors" becomes "finding partners". What are other solutions in your area? If you're a business, you want to find out because your product/service is competing for customers. For social innovation, you want to find out so that you can be inspired, perhaps avoid others' mistakes, and locate potential partners. - Business Model Canvas
Information sources organized on the Business Model Canvas format.
Articles & News
Search in article databases and news sources to inform your ideation and prototyping.
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Google ScholarEnables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
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New York Times Academic Pass (Students Only)All UNC Chapel Hill students now have full, year-round access to The New York Times, including smartphone, tablet, and browser access, thanks to a sponsorship from the University Library. For app downloads, visit NYTimes.com/mobile.
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Washington Post (Online)Access articles for the The Washington Post in 15 years of rolling archival content to the present (2005- present for 2020). Available to all UNC students, faculty, and staff.
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American City Business JournalsAmerican City Business Journals includes content from 40 city/regional business journals, including the Triangle Business Journal, the Charlotte Business Journal, and most major metropolitan areas. It also contains special content like rankings, lists and data.
Data Sources
Secondary data that can inform your design process. Starting with secondary data can show you what information or data you will need to gather yourself. Using data that already exist will save you time and resources.
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Chapel Hill Open DataGet local government data & info. Data sets include air quality, bus routes, police incident reports, and more.
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Data PlanetFind U.S. and international data sets. Subjects include economics, crime, health, population, energy, the environment, and more. The time period covered varies. For more details consult the user guide linked here.
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SimplyAnalyticsU.S. demographic, business, and marketing data. Learn more here.
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Social ExplorerProvides web-based access to United States Census data from 1790 to the present, and to other U.S. and international data, with the ability to make tables and interactive maps easily or export data for analysis. Data include the most commonly used variables and geographies.
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PolicyMapPolicy and demographic data about communities and markets. Includes many variables relevant to social innovation.
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UNdataProvides simultaneous access to 14 statistical databases from the United Nations and other international organizations through one interface. Areas of coverage include agriculture, education, energy, industry, labor, national accounts, population, tourism and trade. Includes Millennium Development Goals indicators, and UN Key Global Indicators.
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WDI OnlinePublished by the World Bank and updated quarterly, WDI online covers statistics on over 1400 development indicators from over 200 countries. Data includes major economic indicators, information on population, health, gender, poverty, natural resources, financial matters, environmental variables, and other topics related to economic and social development.
Industry Reports
You may find industry reports helpful when doing your design sprints. For example, you could use industry reports to discover common market challenges faced by organizations providing similar services or products.
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Passport GMID (Global Market Information Database)Consumer industry reports, U.S. and international.
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Mintel AcademicConsumer and market research reports. Interactive data books in each report include the actual survey data.
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