Abstract Design is increasingly used to develop public services, and considerations have
arisen regarding how to gain best value from it. Design ladders and design maturity models …

Whilst design politics is an increasingly topical focus in the design field, in practice, design
for policy has been normatively presented as a people-centric approach to public …

This paper aims to contribute to the scholarly debate on public service logic (PSL) by
deepening the understanding of how value propositions are created and altered. The PSL …

The demands of many public health contexts and challenges call for conditions that foster
effective decision making. Policy designers must make appropriate choices appear viable …

Highlights•Trace the micro-dynamics of framing in product design process over
months.•Theorise the design process through abductive analysis.•Power asymmetries …

This paper studies intelligibility in constructive design research, in which the main instrument
of knowledge creation is design. Constructive design research is situated between design …

Public sector organizations have been increasingly turning to design in their pursuit to
innovate and address pressing challenges that seem intractable through their existing ways …

With the increasing phenomenon of governments adopting design approaches, their one-
size-fits-all kind of training or blind adoption without the understanding of their current …

Design for policy scholarship has relied heavily on the policy cycle as a central organising
model or heuristic in its work. While the policy cycle is used by the public policy field to …

This paper investigates opportunities for scaling up the diversity and inclusion of
international residents at the level of municipality service offerings. The starting point is a set …