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City Playbooks · № 01
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Complaint-Driven Innovation

Turning everyday dissatisfaction into a municipal innovation pipeline. The full 84-page playbook, five phases, nine canvases, three case studies.

What's inside

Every municipality already runs the largest user-research programme in its city, it just files it as complaints. This playbook turns that stream into a working innovation pipeline: how to capture signals across channels, separate operational faults from design failures, frame the challenges worth solving, run pilots with stop rules set in advance, and hand the capability to a named owner with a budget line.

  • Capture
  • Sense-make
  • Frame
  • Prototype
  • Embed

Written for municipal innovation leads, service owners and public-sector designers. Cases from Helsinki, Barcelona and Rotterdam, including one that was stopped.

84pages
09canvases
03case studies

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