Portable
Portable is a purpose-driven agency with a mission to address areas of social need and policy using human-centred research, design and technology.
We deliver technology-based and design-thinking informed solutions and innovation in the form of useful, accessible products and services which place people and communities at their centre.
For over 15 years, Portable has been at the forefront of human-centred design and technology working with the public sector, not for profits and private sector partners to drive social impact across Australia and beyond. Our cross-disciplined teams deliver high-quality, bespoke research, strategy, facilitation, service design, and digital experiences, apps, products and platforms across a range of sectors, including health, disability, legal and the social sector.
We are a proud B Corp.
We focus our work around 6 key impact areas:
- Accessible transport systems
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Death and ageing
- Education
- Access to justice
- Sustainability
Some of our most popular reports are listed below. These products of our passion and expertise are available for anyone to download:
- AI and the Social Impact Sector
- Wayfinding in Australia
- Design for Justice
- Hacking the Bureaucracy
- Rethinking Not-for-Profits
We also facilitate a range high-efficiency workshops that help you get clarity, get aligned and get things underway. Choose one that suits your current aims and context, or tell us what combination or adjustments you’d like to see.
- Discovery workshops efficiently gather and make sense of your context and inputs to inform and and align your team around a challenge
- Scoping workshops are a quick way to achieve alignment around aims, expectations and parameters to define a challenge
- Ideation workshops take you through structured, rapid idea generation to inform and prioritise potential solutions
- Planning workshops deliver a focussed, prioritised, specific and achievable plan on a page to galvanise immediate action and momentum
If our work and values strike a chord with your own, or if your team can benefit from having one of our skilled practitioners in your corner, get in touch for a conversation.
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