Inclusive Design Consulting

Human-Centered Design & Education for Engineers

Inclusive Design Consulting helps engineers across industries center people more intentionally during design.

We organize and facilitate co-design workshops for teams across industries, execute front-end design work like stakeholder mapping & engagement, and conduct continued professional education for practicing engineers.

Let us help you with:

You care about the people you impact, but engaging them strategically feels like climbing Mt. Everest.

You’re the expert in your technology, but the people you’re impacting are experts in the impact of your technology on their lives.

Let us help you. We can work with you to identify your goals and decide who needs to be in the room. Then, we’ll plan and execute evidence-based co-design experiences that put the people most impacted by your work in the driver’s seat.

We’ll distill key insights and strategic recommendations after the facilitated experience that put you and your team on the fast track to informed and impact-based design decisions.

We’ll help you navigate the “messy” but essential early-project milestones.

We’ll help you pause (briefly) to take the needed time up front to make sure you’re solving the right problems.

Research across industries shows that investments early in design projects to explore problems, people, and solutions pays off in more impactful outcomes, time and resource savings, and catching potential roadblocks early.

Engineers never stop learning. We’ll get you updated on the latest applied research & design methods.

Engineers know a lot, but we’re often under-trained on the skills needed to take on complex sociotechnical projects.

Let us help you level-up your sociotechnical skills through collaborative educational workshops targeted to support your team’s goals.

Who are the people and organizations that will impact and be impacted by your work?

Stakeholders are anyone who could impact or be impacted by your work. This includes individual people, groups, neighborhoods, organizations, institutions, societies, and natural environments (Mitchell et al., 1997, Freeman 2010).

We can help you explore your industry-specific stakeholders, identify and prioritize which stakeholders you want to engage, execute that stakeholder engagement leveraging research-based strategies, and support long-term management of stakeholder relationships