how might we actively and intentionally co-create a future that truly serves women?

For too long, women have lived in a world designed with and for men. Let’s change that.

Our current design methodologies lack the nuance to understand and design for women’s lived experiences. In fact, they often exacerbate the inequities that women experience. They let us forget about women.

an overview

Women-Centric Design* helps design and impact practitioners build products, services and systems that center and serve women.

Our tools, frameworks & questions:

*Women-Centric Design is currently in beta version 1.0.

about

the why & what

who’s this toolkit for

our values

co-creation process

creators & contributors


our two foundational tools

In its current version, Women-Centric Design shares two core tools. The tools include practical examples, questions, and application exercises, all crafted to guide you through problem-definition & project scoping, design research, insights synthesis, ideation, prototyping, and implementation.

The Women-Centric Eye

A project scoping & opportunity identification framework

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How might we evaluate our current women-centricity and identify opportunity areas to increase it?

Dive in: Women-Centric Eye

The Non-Negotiables

A research and ideation tool

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How might we incorporate greater women-centricity into the solutions we build?

Dive in: The Non-Negotiables


putting into practice

Women-centric design tools, frameworks, and questions are built to integrate into existing design and creative-problem solving processes.

Pre-requisites for applying women-centric design

role-based guides

To make it easier for practitioners to apply the tools, we have created guides for specific roles that we are familiar with:

For designers & researchers

For product managers

🙋🏽‍♀️ We would love to co-create more guides like this with and for other impact-oriented roles. Would you like to co-create one with us? Tell us more here →


additional resources

💾 Get an overview summary of Women-Centric Design ↗️

👩🏾‍🏫 join an upcoming workshop to apply the tools in an interactive setting ↗️

📖 Interviews with the gender practitioners that informed this work ↗️

Resource Library

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a project by unconform

Unconform is a design consultancy that helps organisations build products & services that truly center, serve, and value women. We help organisations get smarter about women’s lived experiences, go further in their research faster, and be more equitable from the get-go.

about the project

Women-Centric Design is a toolkit supporting design and impact practitioners to build products, services and systems that truly serve women. This project is and always will be a work in progress. Women-Centric Design is currently in beta version 1.0.

created by Mansi Gupta

Unconform is founded by Mansi Gupta, a designer and researcher with several years of experience leading women’s focused projects in healthcare, finance, tech, education, primarily in the Global South. Her project experience and observation that there is potential for more cross-learning in this space drove the creation and development of Women Centric Design.

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quick links

main links

↗ Women Centric Design Home

women-centric design handbook

↗ Unconform

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↗ Contribute funds to the project

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tools & application

↗️ Join an upcoming workshop