🌍 In our upcoming edition of The Journey Map, we’re exploring cashless societies, sharing highlights from the Startup Summit in Pakistan, and looking at how an inspiring initiative is reimagining cities as more livable spaces—by placing children at the heart of the design process. Want these insights and more delivered straight to your inbox by the end of the week? Sign up now: https://lnkd.in/dxu8qXuE. 💌 Missed October’s edition? Don’t worry—you can view the previous newsletter on our archive today! ✨ #TheJourneyMap #Newsletter
Ideate Innovation
Design Services
Islamabad, Federal Capital 4,423 followers
A Human-Centered Design firm using the tools of systems thinking, ethnography and design to build a more equitable world
About us
Ideate Innovation is a Human-Centered Design firm that designs products, experiences and services guided by the belief that great design is built on great research, and aided by a commitment to equity, social welfare and environmental sustainability. To achieve this, we have built a team with academic and professional backgrounds in ethnography, design, social sciences, technology, and product development; allowing us to bring a diverse set of expertise and experiences to every problem we work on. Over the last 5 years, we have conducted research in and built products and services for partners in fields like financial inclusion, agriculture, healthcare, gender equity, social protection, and more. These projects have helped us build and hone the most important skills you need when working on complex problems in an ever-changing environment: empathy, curiosity and adaptability.
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External link for Ideate Innovation
- Industry
- Design Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Islamabad, Federal Capital
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2017
- Specialties
- Agri Digitization, Banking, Financial Inclusion, Reproductive and Material Health, Telecom, Enterprise Software, Startups, Development Sector, and Ethnography
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50, Wallayat Complex, Bahria Town Phase 7
2nd Floor, IDEATE Innovation
Islamabad, Federal Capital 44000, PK
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5481 Dundas St West
Suite 201
Toronto, Ontario M98 1B5, CA
Employees at Ideate Innovation
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Uzair Sukhera عزیر سکھیرا
Product & Experience Strategy ¦ Growth & Innovation ¦ Intrapreneur ¦ SAFe APM Certified ¦ 6-Sigma Blackbelt
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Umair Shafique
Head of Design @ Aion Digital | Leading UX for Digital Banking
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Farhan Afzal
Experience Design Lead at Ideate Innovation
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Ahmed Hashmi
Associate Partner & Head of Experience Design at Ideate Innovation
Updates
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For our November #teamretreat, we went up into the hills ⛰️ We enjoyed some quality time catching up and playing games, cooking together, and also partaking in a rock-climbing session inspired by our resident climbing expert, Muhammad Ahmed 🧗
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Exciting updates from our Partner & Head of Design, Ali Murtaza! Over the past weeks, Ali had been working alongside the SECP to help shape the Pakistan Startup Summit 2024. From setting the agenda to gathering insights for the post-summit report, it’s been a collaborative effort to support growth and innovation in Pakistan’s startup ecosystem ✨
Over the last few weeks, I've had the privilege of working with the SECP to help shape and support the Pakistan Startup Summit 2024, which took place earlier this week in Karachi. The summit brought together industry leaders, policymakers, investors, and entrepreneurs to explore ways of fostering innovation, discuss regulatory developments, and address challenges and opportunities across Pakistan's startup ecosystem. As a consultant for the SECP, I got the opportunity to help set the summit's agenda, lay out key objectives, and develop guides for each panel discussion across the two days. Among the speakers and panelists were the Finance Minister of Pakistan, senior decision makers from the SECP, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and NADRA; as well as accomplished leaders like Ms. Sima Kamil, Nadeem Hussain, Nadeem Shaikh, Misbah Naqvi, Khurram Zafar, Halima Iqbal, Taimoor Ali, Naureen Hyat, Mubariz Siddiqui, Dr.Sara Saeed, and more. With the summit now concluded, we are gathering feedback from attendees, panelists, and moderators to better understand what worked well, and what could be done better next time. If you attended the summit, and would like to share your thoughts, please reach out in the comments or via DM. We will send you a link to a short feedback form in the coming days. This feedback, learnings from the summit, and other ongoing conversations with panelists and speakers will shape the comprehensive post-Summit report we are writing with the SECP. This report will highlight key themes, challenges, policy recommendations, and opportunities for collaboration within Pakistan’s startup landscape.
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🌍 Building Scalable Cashless Ecosystems 🌍 With digital financial services (DFS) on the rise in Pakistan, we’re thrilled to have partnered with Karandaaz Pakistan to transform local communities into cashless ecosystems. Through user-centered research, we identified housing societies as suitable ecosystems for digitizing everyday payments—utility bills, groceries, school fees—and crafted strategies for DFS integration and behavior change among residents and merchants alike. This research laid the foundation for a pilot program, now being rolled out with Askari Bank and Digital Miles, and is paving the way for greater financial inclusion, reduced cash dependency, and a scalable model for cashless ecosystems across the nation. 🔗 Learn more about our research on cashless ecosystems: https://lnkd.in/d2iRyH57 #DigitalInclusion #CommunityCentric #CashlessEconomy #FinancialInnovation #FintechTransformation
Cashless Ecosystem (Karandaaz | Askari Bank | Digital Miles) Karandaaz Pakistan envisioned the idea of digitizing all payment nodes of a defined geographic area and eventually through research with support from Ideate Innovation narrowed down on digitizing payments in housing societies of Pakistan. Hypothesis: Variability in payment transactions and heterogeneity of consumer segments makes housing societies a key target area for Financial Institutions to create a closed cashless ecosystem while maintaining commercial viability through high engagement of users. As an experiment to initiate the work on this ambition under its private sector engagements, Karandaaz along with Askari Bank and Digital Miles has embarked on a journey to shortlist and then digitize payments in a housing society. What does it mean! Askari bank in collaboration with Digital Miles will digitize payments for residents' touchpoints like Merchants, Clubs, Schools, Utility and Society Bills, Events, Gyms and Hospitals. On top, a lifestyle app is envisioned to digitize P2P use-cases that exist as a part of economy like split bill, tailor payments, settlements between residents, domestic support staff, donations and many other things. The idea is to target opening accounts of at least 80% of the adults in the housing society and see the impact of cashless ecosystem in their lives through post implementation research. The insights on the reduction in the shoe leather cost of residents, the viability of high adoption of accounts by the residents for operators and affect of convenience on the lives will be show cased in the wider dissemination. Happy to ideate similar projects around cashless ecosystem with other Financial Institutions – Please feel free to reach out to me. Sharjeel Murtaza Ali Naqvi Rehan Akhtar Sanee Zahra Mohammad Shahzeb Faisal Samia Salik Adeel Khalid Ramsha Khan Danyal A. Ali Murtaza Umair Shafique #CashlessEcosystem #DigitalPayments
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Empowering millennials in Pakistan to take charge of their financial future! Together with YPay Financial Services (Pvt. Ltd.), we’re redefining personal finance education with a redesigned app that’s accessible, engaging, and tailored to meet millennial needs. See how our human-centered design approach boosted engagement and empowered users—read the full case study here: https://lnkd.in/dsR-JmWx #PersonalFinance #Millennials #ImpactDesign #Pakistan #HCD #FinancialInclusion
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🌟 Episode 3 of #DesignGoi is now live! 🌟 This special episode, in honor of World Mental Health Day, features powerful stories and insights from three incredible professionals in the mental wellbeing space: Dr Ayesha Mian, Sabaenah Salim CPsychol, and Zaira Hussain. Together, they explore the importance of mental health, share personal anecdotes, and discuss impactful ways to support mental wellbeing in our communities. 🎥 Watch the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/dPg3E-ch #WorldMentalHealthDay #MentalWellbeing #DesignGoi #IdeateInnovation
Designgoi: World Mental Health Day, Episode 3
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We’re thrilled to be presenting our work on transforming healthcare through behaviour change at the 14th International Public Health Conference in Islamabad, Pakistan! Our research, in partnership with the International Rescue Committee, focuses on integrating sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and gender-based violence (GBV) services by addressing key social barriers that shift behavioural norms. Driven by our user-centered approach, this work is helping shape provider guidelines for service delivery that enhances the personal agency of marginalised women seeking SRH and GBV support. Follow us for updates! #PublicHealthConference #SBC #IdeateInnovation #SRH #GBV
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Introducing Nida Hasan, our Marketing Lead ⚡️ Nida's always on top of all things marketing, scaling up our online presence while still finding time to crack a pun. Whether she’s baking up a storm (minus tomatoes and cinnamon) or crafting marketing strategies, her wit and warm presence have added a whole new flavor to our team—and we wouldn’t have it any other way. #meettheteam #marketing
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Meet the incredible speakers for our special World Mental Health Day edition of Designgoi! 🌿💬 These amazing speakers working in the mental wellbeing space will be sharing personal stories from their work, offering unique insights into the journey of well-being, all through a single, powerful photo. Date: October 11, 2024 Time: 7 PM PKT, virtually on Zoom Don’t miss the chance to connect and be inspired—register now to attend: https://lnkd.in/giwfgXaj Ahmed Hashmi Sabaenah Salim CPsychol Dr Ayesha Mian Zaira Hussain #MentalHealthMatters #Designgoi #StorytellingForChange #MentalWellbeing #RegisterNow