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Our Approach

Evidence-Informed Design

How we turn evidence into practical solutions that work in real classrooms and systems — designed with the people who use them, not for them.

Six stages, one continuous loop

A mother and daughter — the real people at the centre of CoLab's human-centred design process
Research First Co-Creation Human-Centred Rapid Prototyping Tested in the Field Built to Scale

The Process

From evidence to a shared public good

Research

Ground truth from the field

Insights

Making sense of the evidence

Co-creation

Designing with, not for

Prototype

A first working version

Testing

Refined against reality

Scale

Shared as a public good

Freely Shared

Digital Public Goods

A resource becomes a true public good when it's non-rivalrous and non-excludable — one organisation using it doesn't stop another from using it too. We design our toolkits, templates and knowledge products with that in mind, so evidence doesn't sit in one report but keeps working for the next team that needs it.

Browse our toolkits & resources

Toolkits & Templates

Toolkits and templates that standardise and simplify operations for the teams who adopt them.

SOPs

Standard Operating Procedures that ensure quality and consistency wherever a program is delivered.

Learning Briefs & Handbooks

Capturing and sharing institutional knowledge so it outlives any single project.

Program Design Blueprints

Reusable blueprints and templates that shorten the path from idea to a running program.

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