Brief
The Menzies Health Institute has a vast repository of evidence-based mental health resources. Their Stay Strong Team came to us looking for ways to make those resources easily accessible. They wanted to work with people who would honour the true meaning of co-design, understand the deep importance of symbols and listen to the technical difficulties faced in remote areas. They knew they needed a website, but they were also looking for appealing and functional digital solutions that would work in communities across Australia.
Approach
We listened. Deeply. And started a 2+ year co-design journey to bring this vast and valuable set of resources to the people who could implement them. The resulting work grew to involve: branding, assets, user research, First Nations design collaboration and guidance, the joy of employing 2 talented First Nations people for part of the project, the development of an interactive PDF that could be downloaded and printed for remote use, UX/UI design, website design and build, and review of their current app. Words aren’t enough to describe how, together, we achieved extraordinary high and low tech solutions through asking, listening, responding and creating.
