Apply for AW Springboard 2024
Applied Works invites you to apply for free design, user, and impact expertise (worth £12k) to help bring your important data or research project to the attention of the people who need to see it.
Apply by 2 December 2024
We’re offering one organisation from anywhere in the world the chance to work with our award-winning design studio based in London’s Somerset House – worth £12,000.
Apply to work with us and get:
Consultation session to understand the challenge (1 hour).
Impact-planning workshop looking across the landscape – user, data discovery, finding stories (1 or 2 days).
Initial concepts and sketches.
Key recommendations for long-term impact.
Update meetings after each step.
Do you hold data or research with the potential to solve a global problem, but need decision-makers, policy-makers or even the general public to engage with it? Applied Works is on a mission to help organisations like yours make a bigger impact with the information you hold. We’ll help you draw out the most compelling stories, and place your audiences in the centre of the action, with interactive and pioneering design.
We hope to be the springboard to get your important project off the ground. We’ll lead workshops to understand your audience and draw out the most interesting stories in the data. We’ll then work with you to generate creative ideas, and produce initial concepts and sketches, along with some recommendations for you to share with your internal stakeholders.
Deliverables and full terms and conditions below.
A few words from last year’s selected organisation, Open Cities Labs
“Working with Applied Works was a collaborative and enriching experience, their ability to distill our input into clear recommendations has set us on the right track for user testing and marketing of our product going forward. The engagement process was interactive, easy to follow and enjoyable. We also appreciated the quality feedback session where the AW team presented our session back to us after they had processed and prioritised our comments and input.
“The result of this activity is that we have a clear set of ideas and assumptions to go test with real users as well as a good start point to begin marketing with our perceived core user base.”
Watch our team introduce AW Springboard
About Applied Works
We’re the team behind the BBC’s most shared page ever – The Great British Class Calculator – and we’re an award-winning digital design studio based in Somerset House. We’ve worked with The Times, Chatham House, the United Nations, and Al Gore’s Generation, among many of the world’s most influential organisations. We combine data, editorial, and user-centred design expertise to help organisations present and discuss complex themes with different audiences around the world. We love challenging projects that allow us to work on subjects we care passionately about, such as the Sustainable Development Goals, social inequalities, and the circular economy.
AW Springboard deliverables
Impact planning workshop (1 or 2 days)
Identification of business needs
Creation of key persona profiles
Data/content mapping
Story outline
Initial concepts and sketches
Collection of references/inspirations/moodboard
Key recommendations for long-term impact
Recommended next steps about the produced outputs
Ideas for a longer vision (based on our understanding of users, data, goals)
Terms and conditions
Deadline for open call is midnight on 2 December 2024.
One organisation will be picked by 10 December 2024 by our internal panel, based on the potential of the dataset they’ve put forward and the potential for us to make the biggest impact with it.
As part of the evaluation process, we will also evaluate potential projects based on specific alignment criteria with our company values.
Maximum 5 people in each workshop.
UK applicants will have a choice of in-person or online workshops.
International applicants are welcome, but all workshops and meetings will be held via video call.
Incomplete submissions will not be considered.
Work will commence between 6 January and 31 March 2025 (depending on schedules of both Applied Works and the selected organisation).
Value of work up to £12k and cannot be exchanged for cash.
This collaboration doesn’t include digital development, only conceptual designs which can be used as a basis for future development.
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If you have any questions about or issues with the application process, please contact hannah.foulds@appliedworks.co.uk