Local Peoples is a studio and community of research, design and transformation experts, dedicated to solving complex citizen-centric and environmental challenges.

We operate across Australia, with studios in Melbourne and Canberra.

Our key focus is to help government departments to confirm that the policy intention of products and services continues to solve the right problems and serve users as originally intended (or even better). A big part of our expertise is also to help government agencies avoid unintended consequences along the way.

We deliver rapid outcomes and build continuing value by co-designing, testing and iterating on policy, services and products to build a positive future for all Australians.

We’re proud to publish Matters Journal, a weekly digital and biannual print publication telling interconnected stories from the worlds of arts, design, technology, health, food and the environment.

We do this by:

Assembling bespoke multidisciplinary teams to deliver citizen-focused design of program delivery, policy, services, and technology.

Undertaking deep community engagement to co-design with citizens – particularly vulnerable communities.

Supporting clients to research, prioritise, and create proof-of-concept ideas rapidly and affordably, focusing on delivering maximum value.

Measuring cumulative impact across the project lifecycle to ensure we deliver tangible net citizen outcom

Embedding capability uplift into all our services, to equip your team with the knowledge skills to maintain solutions and deliver continuous improvement autonomously into the future.

We believe what we design should be a step toward the future that we want to inhabit: a more social, sustainable, informed, inspiring, cohesive, considered, equitable and empathic world.

That’s why our projects are judged on how they create beneficial social, environmental and economic outcomes for our clients.

At the heart of creating meaningful design is consideration and empathy. In following a human-centred design process, we put the end user’s needs and desires at the heart of all of the brands, services and experiences we create.

We have a proven track record delivering complex design, research and strategy projects with some of the world’s biggest organisations.