Thank you

 

After 14 wonderful years of collaboration, strategic design, and impact, Meld Studios has officially closed its doors. We express our deepest gratitude to everyone who has supported us— Meldsters, clients, partners, our families, and our broader community. Your trust and belief in the power of designing better futures together made our work truly meaningful, and we’re incredibly proud of the impact we’ve achieved together. We aim to leave the case studies and written pieces here as an archive for all to access. We have much to be proud of and to still learn from.

We continue to care about the work to be done. While we are dispersed, many talented Meldsters can support your needs. If you’d like to get in touch, please feel free to contact us at hello@meldstudios.com.au and we will connect you. Thank you for being part of our journey.

Public recognition for our work

The impact of our work has been publicly acknowledged through various awards. To date, our highest acknowledgement was winning the Good Design Award of The Year for 2018. This placed us first overall out of 536 entries from around the world.

Case studies

ORGANISATION DESIGN

Port Authority of NSW’s Sustainability Plan

We are helping the Port Authority of NSW to use the creation of its sustainability plan to model new ways of working.

ORGANISATION DESIGN

Delivering Great Policy

Delivering Great Policy is a cross-agency initiative to improve policy advice by lifting policy capability across the Australian Public Service (APS). The collaborative approach co-designed the solution with the broader policy community inside and outside of government, redefining what best practice engagement looks like for policy-makers, to achieve better outcomes for all Australians.

ORGANISATION DESIGN

Co-creating a climate initiative for Australia’s primary producers

Meld helped the Rural Research and Development Corporations set about establishing new ways of working with Australia’s primary producers to help producers mitigate and adapt to increasing climate risks and increase their farm gate output in a sustainable way.

SERVICE DESIGN

City of Sydney – Visitor information services

Meld was engaged to reimagine the end-to-end service experience of visitor information needs.

ORGANISATION DESIGN

Growing HCD capability across Queensland Government

Queensland Government is on a journey to embed design practices at scale. Applying a human-centred design approach to developing a framework for building design capability (yes, meta) resulted in a solution appropriate for and specific to the context of government, accommodating the diversity of roles, existing processes, culture and constraints.

SERVICE DESIGN

Creating ASIC’s Financial Wellbeing Network

One in three Australians find dealing with money overwhelming, and nearly half of Australia’s 12.6m workers worry about their financial situation. In response, ASIC designed their Financial Wellbeing Network; a service bringing together a diverse group of organisations all helping Australians to be in control of their financial lives.

SERVICE DESIGN

Transport as a service in Sydney’s North West

We worked with customers and transport stakeholders to orchestrate how all modes of transport and mobility come together as a service ecosystem. This project received a Gold award at the 2019 Good Design Awards for excellence in public sector service design.

SERVICE DESIGN

Building towards a more sustainable and energy-efficient future

New homes are a major contributor to global warming. While builders in New South Wales are designing energy-efficient homes to address this problem, they struggle to sell the benefits to homebuyers. This service engages builders and homebuyers to co-design solutions to this challenge.