Citizen Sandbox™
A new approach for putting the citizen voice right next to you when using and designing with AI.
Applying a human-centred design process to designing and using AI, we help you embed citizen values.
Our Process
Citizen Sandbox™ pre-validates foundational values with citizens. So your AI usage and design can better reflect what citizens value — across government and industry.
Citizen Sandbox™ is a social enterprise on a mission to put citizen values at the heart of AI. We work with citizens to validate foundational values and translate them into actionable tools.
Our process is a continual loop: we validate foundational values with citizens, translate them into tools, and put them to work in government and industry.
It doesn't replace the citizen engagement you do on individual projects — it lays the groundwork, so you can keep innovating from a shared base of validated values.
AI-HCD Framework
AI-Human Centred Design
AI usage and development present new challenges and opportunities that sit outside the mindsets and conditions factored into conventional design frameworks. That's why we created the AI-HCD framework.
A new AI-HCD framework that centres human values and aligns them for innovation. Grounded in human-centred design, AI-HCD keeps people at the centre — so you solve the right problem and build AI that's fit-for-purpose.
Our tools
We have developed a range of tools to help you take citizen values and use them in your AI workflow and AI build.
Pilot with us
We're piloting with a small number of partners across government and industry.
Expressions of interest are now open.
Register your interestAbout us
Dani and Mel have years of experience as designers and educators, across industry and government. They understand the barriers to doing human-centred design and the challenges of innovating with AI.
Citizen Sandbox™ is an innovative methodology that addresses the real frustrations public servants and industry face when doing AI-HCD.
Mel and Dani are thought leaders in AI-HCD and innovation, having developed a first-of-its-kind AI prompt library for the Australian Public Service and Victorian Public Service using a co-design methodology.
