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Circular Design Guide (Ellen MacArthur Foundation + IDEO)

Tool	Scope
Regenerative thinking	Explore opportunities for social, cultural, natural and human capital
Service flip Worksheet	Shift your thinking from products to services through underlying needs
Insides out	Understand the implication of materials that go into everyday products
Inspiration: Digital Systems	Be inspired by agile processes in software development
Learn from nature	Be inspired by how nature might solve your design challenge
Circular Flows Worksheet	Understand how to design for circular economy

DIY, Development Impact & You (Nesta)

Tool	Scope
Evidence planning	I want to look ahead by defining the outcomes from my work
Innovation Flowchart	I want to look ahead to understand what I need to do to bring my idea to life.

Systemic Design Toolkit (Namahn + Shiftn)

Tool	Scope
Rich context template	Setting the boundaries of your system in space and time, identifying the hypothetical parts and relationships.
Actants	Listening to the experiences of people and discovering how the interactions lead to the system’s behaviour. Verifying the initial hypotheses.
System Map	Seeing how the variables and interactions influence the dynamics and emergent behaviour. Identifying the leverage points to work with.

Service Design Toolkit (Namahn)

Tool	Scope
Context & Objective	Objective of the service
Research questions	What do you already know? What do you want to know?
Interview: user experience	Interviewee & context of the interview
Interview: actors map	Interviewee & context of the interview. Ask who was involved in the various experience phases. List actors with whom the user has a close connection in the middle and the other actors in the outermost circle.
Characteristics of the users	Decide on the most important characteristics that have an influence on your service
Persona	"Describe your persona. Describe who he or she is in the context of the (future) service. What are his or her objectives,
Design challenge	Rework your initial objective based on the insights from the previous steps. Which service do you want to design or improve? For whom?
Design requirements	From the design challenge, determine what the high-level requirements are for the users. Try to come up with at least 3 requirements for each.

Making Sense Toolkit (Fab Lab Barcelona, WAAG Society, NL Dundee University, UK EC Joint Research Center, BE PEN Educational Network, KS)

Tool	Scope
Geographical mapping	The key with geographical mapping is to make it a hands- on affair, with participants discussing and mapping the issues themselves,so that they too can fully understand the magnitude of the issue at hand.
Commons mapping	Allows people to log contributions that they are willing to make to the campaign, such as resources, time, or even specific skills
Collaboration pilot schedule	You can design a campaign that takes into account the needs and aspirations of the community, as well as the availability of individual members.
Onboarding kit	Include information and tools not only relating to the issue at hand and community building, but also to technological issues and ways to contribute.
Empathy timeline	An empathy timeline facilitates community building by bringing people together to discuss issues and consider them in a new way.
Recruitment	To save time and recruit more efficiently.

Product-Service Systems Toolkit (PSS Toolkit) (• Brussels Environment, Ecores, Groupe One, Strategic Design Scenarios and Egerie Research)

Tool	Scope
The Regional Sustainable Development Plan	Top down assessment
The Employment-Environment Alliances	Bottom up assessment

Circular Economy Playbok (Sitra, Technology Industries of Finland and Accenture)

Tool	Scope
Business model development toolkit	For identifying inefficiencies and customer pain points, assessing relevance of circular business models, and prioritising them.
Value case tool	For calculating high-level business case for circular business models.