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Jo Szczepanska

Is it time to refresh, repair or retire your personas? ⌛⌛⌛

Test your persona to discover some next steps for improving it — ideally with the people it’s build to represent😊

7 min readMar 2, 2023

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Decorative collage or persona cards, bright colours

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Jo Szczepanska

Squiggles and spirals: a model linking co-design and improvement science

In a busy and time-poor world, our team wanted to find a way to quickly and effectively explain how co-design and improvement science…

3 min readJun 9, 2022

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Squiggles and spirals: a model linking co-design and improvement science

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Jo Szczepanska

Worth it? What are payments like for people with lived experience?

What are payments like for people with lived experience collaborating with services today?

6 min readAug 20, 2021

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Worth it? What are payments like for people with lived experience?

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Jo Szczepanska

Co-design isn’t new. Spoiler alert it’s over 40 years old.

You may have just heard the word co-design for the first-time or you may already be jaded at the thought of it. Here is a bit of a…

10 min readJul 3, 2020

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Very colourful tiled pattern, using abstract 60’s shapes to spell out co-design. Fluro teal, pink, yellow, deep green and red

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Jo Szczepanska

Co-design by a different name

Co-design is an approach to design that’s been building momentum for 40+ years. Learning about them has benefits

2 min readJul 1, 2020

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Co-design by a different name

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Jo Szczepanska

What is co-design exactly?

What makes co-design tricky to define is that it is adaptable. It can be used for just about anything at any time.

4 min readSep 1, 2019

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What is co-design exactly?

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Jo Szczepanska
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Today

Post disposable futures — the workshop

It’s all fun and games until you have to get up in front of a bunch of people you don’t necessarily know very well and try to compel them…

7 min readMay 17, 2018

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Post disposable futures — the workshop

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Jo Szczepanska
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Today

Exploring post disposable futures

Last week Today partnered with KeepCup for Melbourne Knowledge Week (From the Ground Up — An exploration of Food, Hospitality and Tech in…

6 min readMay 17, 2018

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Exploring post disposable futures

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Jo Szczepanska

A dreadfully incomplete list of Design thinking tips, tools and courses

What is this? As the name suggests this is a list of tools that span design thinking and human-centred design. The tools go both ways…

3 min readAug 18, 2017

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A dreadfully incomplete list of Design thinking tips, tools and courses

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Jo Szczepanska

Design thinking origin story plus some of the people who made it all happen

Recently design thinking has gained momentum in the business world but how exactly did it come about?

18 min readJan 4, 2017

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Design thinking origin story plus some of the people who made it all happen

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Jo Szczepanska

Jo Szczepanska

Jo wants to live in a fair and healthy world, where services are co-designed with communities. She's multidisciplinary designer with a background in research.

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