By Hannah Grace

Building a website for landscape architects, Country Cliff. Country Cliff Landscapes are premium landscape architects, whom specialise in the creation of exclusive, distinctive, environmentally sustainable landscape, landscape architectural and urban design solutions.

Country Cliff Architects need a website built to connect with their users. They want a platform to showcase their projects, portfolio’s of work, to help build their reputation and gain clients.

The Department of Fire and Emergency was looking for effective ways to communicate adequate bush fire safety information to University aged students. Using the Stanford design school five step process to create alternative and innovative suggestions, we designed a unique and powerful campaign to educate the user. We used a combination of qualitative and quantitative research to gain an understanding of what the users' needs and wants are. Design thinking enables us to think outside of the box and explore avenues that may not have been.

To come up with a solution, the process began by using design thinking methods, in particular the Stanford  school design process to come up with innovative solutions. The design thinking process is often a non-linear one. Phases often seem to jump back and forth however, we will keep it as five defined stages.

The Department of Fire and Emergency was looking for effective ways to communicate adequate bush fire safety information to University aged students. It is demonstrated how using the Stanford design school five step process to create alternative and innovative suggestions. A combination of qualitative and quantitative research to gain an understanding of what the users’ needs and wants are.  Design thinking enables us to think outside of the box and explore avenues that may not have been.

To find out more about this project, head to my website. It will be live tomorrow.

The Government of Western Australia, the Department of Fire and Emergency Services are concerned that fire safety education is not directed at University aged students (particularly those aged between 18-25 years). The DFES want to explore ways to communicate fire safety and would also like students to know about having a bush-fire safety plan.