The Design Commission has launched its newest report, 'Designing the Digital Economy: Embedding Growth through Design, Innovation and Technology'. The report is the result of a nine-month inquiry chaired by Lord Inglewood and Prof Gillian Youngs, Professor of Digital Economy at Brighton University.

Download the report here

View photos from the formal Parliamentary launch event

The report warns the UK digital economy will not reach its full economic and social potential without the strategic application of design to ensure people, and not technologies, are at the centre of the ‘digital revolution’.

The report was launched at a Parliamentary reception in the House of Lords on May 14th 2014. The inquiry and report have been kindly supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Sir Terence Conran.

The Design Commission is a high level, cross-party group of parliamentarians and leading representatives from business, industry and the public sector, that explores through research how design can drive economic and social improvement and how government and business can better understand the importance of design. The Commission acts as the research arm of, and the sister group to, the All-Party Parliamentary Design & Innovation Group.

Visit the APDIG website to learn more and find out how your organisation can join the All-Party Parliamentary Design & Innovation Group and the Design Commission.