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What is Participatory Design?

"Participatory design is an approach to design strategy that brings customers into the heart of the design process. Also known as “co-creation”, “co-design”, or “cooperative design”, it emcompasses techniques useful to both initial discovery and subsequent ideation phases of a project, where the end-users of a product, service, or experience take an active role in co-designing solutions for themselves." --Olga Elizarova, Kimberly Dowd of UX Magazine

Check out the resources below to see how different industries incorporate participatory design.