We have shared a range of useful information about co-design processes and the reform work.
Disability Reform Community of Practice #1
This is a recording of the Disability Reform Community of Practice, recorded on 21 August 2025.
The Queensland Disability Stakeholder Engagement and Co-Design Strategy AUSLAN Version
The Queensland Disability Stakeholder Engagement and Co-Design Strategy Screen Reader Friendly
Introduction Community Forums (February 2025) Final Report
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Introduction Community Forums (February 2025) Presentation Screen Reader Friendly
Disability Reform Community Forums (May/June 2025) Presentation Screen Reader Friendly
Disability Reform Community Forums Summary Report (May/June 2025) Screen Reader Friendly
Disability Reform Community Forums Summary Report (May/June 2025)
Disability Reform Community Forums (May/June 2025) Presentation
Introduction Community Forums (February 2025) Presentation
Introduction Community Forums (February 2025) Final report
The Queensland Disability Stakeholder Engagement and Co-Design Strategy
Good Practice Guidelines for Engaging with People with Disability
https://www.disabilitygateway.gov.au/ads/strategy/good-practice-guidelines
They provide practical guidance for people who run activities to design, plan, and deliver processes, products, services, and policies. These activities include: research; testing; development; decision making. The guidelines were co-designed by people with disability, disability peak and representative bodies, and disability service providers across Australia. The guidelines will help users to make sure their activities work for people who may experience challenges with: hearing; immunity; interacting socially; moving (upper body and/or lower body); regulating emotions; remembering and/or concentrating; seeing; sensing; speaking; understanding information.
Universal Design Guidelines
https://udlguidelines.cast.org/
A framework and set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.
The Citizen’s Handbook Ladder of Engagement
https://citizenshandbook.org/arnsteinsladder.html
Assessment tool to ascertain a stakeholder/participant’s level of involvement in co-design.
The Citizen’s Handbook
https://citizenshandbook.org/toc.html
Produced in Canada, this book covers the A-Z of citizen-led advocacy and action, including collaboration.
Stanford University CHAT: Co-design for Healthcare and Assistive Technology
https://codesignhealthtech.sites.stanford.edu/
An immersive workshop where people will connect, create, and share translatable technologies for mobility challenges.
People-centred and participatory policymaking
https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2024/11/19/people-centred-and-participatory-policymaking/
UK government’s Policy Lab for people-centred design. Includes a table of people-centred and participatory methods, including co-design.
NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation Co-Design Toolkit
https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/projects/co-design
A range of resources, including step-by-step guides, ways of working together
MIT D-Lab Co-Design Summits
https://d-lab.mit.edu/approach/co-design-summits
Co-Design Summits (CDS) are week-long hands-on, co-creation workshops inspired by the International Development Design Summits (IDDS). Co-Design Summits bring together 25 to 50 diverse actors to understand complex poverty-related challenges and co-create prototypes together. Co-Design Summits focus on building relationships between sector actors and co-creating technical, service-based, or systems-level solutions to development challenges in a particular region. Includes digital videos.
Miro: dot-voting
https://miro.com/templates/dot-voting/
Dot voting is a survey or polling method to understand what ideas or tasks a team considers the highest priority. Cast votes by posting a dot next to the preferred option.
Miro: Collaborative customer journey mapping
https://miro.com/customer-journey-map/
Illustrate a person’s journey, their key touchpoints, and feelings during the journey to better understand a person’s experience, wants, and needs as well as the opportunities for improvement and who is responsible for each improvement.
Miro
AI-generated collaboration tools for journey-mapping, prototyping and innovation.
Make-Iterate: The Stanford Design Thinking Process
https://makeiterate.com/the-stanford-design-thinking-process/
Provides a powerful tool for businesses and organizations to solve complex problems with creative solutions. It involves understanding people’s needs by empathizing with their experience, reframing the challenge to generate out-of-the-box solutions, prototyping and continuously refining ideas, and testing these prototypes with real users to create successful products
Lived Experience Policymaking Guide
UK Policy Lab’s guide includes principles, behaviours, and mindsets for lived experience work.
Inclusive Accessible Engagement Position Paper
Engagement paper on inclusive and accessible engagement
The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design
Produced by IDEO, which was co-founded by Stanford University, this resource includes mindsets, methods, and case studies.
International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) engagement methods
Participatory-design and engagement methods tools from the International Association for Public Participation.
Health Consumers Queensland Consumer and Community Engagement Framework: For Health Organisations and Consumers
Advocates for co-design and addresses some of the objections to co-design in the healthcare field. Includes successful case studies.
Government of South Australia User-Centred Design Toolkit
South Australian government’s toolkit for user-centred design
Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction
Overview of issues pertaining to collaboration and inclusion of PWD in disaster risk reduction.
Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction
https://collaborating4inclusion.org/
Website regarding collaborating with people with disability on co-designing DiDRR practices. Includes reports, perspectives, videos.
Association of Collaborative Design
https://www.theacd.org.uk/resources
UK-based organisation focussing on co-design for built environment. The website includes a wealth of guides and case studies.
Co-design Hub charter
Disability Reform Community of Practice Recording – Now Available.
This is a recording of the Disability Reform Community of Practice, recorded on 21 August 2025.
It includes:
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Welcome and overview
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The purpose of the Community of Practice
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A presentation on best practice co-design from members of our co-design team
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Sharing some feedback after break out rooms
Although Auslan interpreters attended the live session and people could see them – unfortunately they are not visible in the recording. An Auslan-translated version of this video will be available soon and we are working to ensure this doesn’t happen for the next video recording.
You can view the August recording using this link: https://youtu.be/OfNJdi8cgGA
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