The Equity Centered Innovation (ECI) Lab is an independent consultancy focused on combining research, design, and practice for more usable, viable, and equitable innovations.
Founder & Principal Consultant
Technology has the power to produce both societal benefits and significant harm with unintended and undesirable consequences arising all the time.
It is becoming increasingly expected that companies ensure their products, processes, and services are developed responsibly.
ECI Lab uses concepts, theories, models, frameworks, and methods from a number of overlapping practices to generate outcomes that are more usable, viable, and equitable:
Human-Centered Design (HCD)
Public Interest Technology (PIT)
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI)
Science & Technology Studies (STS)
Research
Discover Insights
Workshops
Anticipate Outcomes
Design Sprints
Inclusive Participation
Evaluations
Enhance Robustness
Core Principles
Place those most vulnerable to outcomes at the centre of processes.
Anticipate outcomes through reflection and foresight.
Design with inclusive participation at the core.
Evaluate throughout to respond to outcomes for social impact.
Outcomes
Fewer adverse consequences
Enhanced trust and relationships
Higher brand value and reputation
Culture of responsible entrepreneurship
Increased innovation capacities
Research Case Studies
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