


CASE STUDY
Beyond One Size Fits All
Public Health, Family Planning, Social Impact
Research, Product Innovation, Design
CASE STUDY
CASE STUDY
8
8
8
Research Immersions
Research Immersions
1100+
1100+
1100+
Research Participants
Research Participants
300+
300+
300+
Annotations per immersion
Annotations per immersion
Catapult Design leverages design to research, test and create innovative, accessible solutions
Catapult Design is a non-profit product and service design firm that works with socially driven organizations to build forward-looking, accessible, and market-based products and services that give low-income and underserved people reliable tools to improve their quality of life. Its team of designers, engineers, and business specialists dedicated to creating solutions to social problems with people and planet at the forefront.



Catapult Design partnered with Spindle Design, Dots (formerly known as Open Knowledge Framework), DODO Design, YUX, and Alt Unfold to better understand and prioritize the unmet needs of women as they relate to modern contraceptive methods. In regions like Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal, contraceptive choices are often developed without sufficient input from women. This disconnect leads to solutions that may not fully address the nuanced and diverse preferences shaping women’s contraceptive decision-making.
The platform was used to document a robust set of insights, grounded in real stories and women’s experiences to helping inform the development of contraceptive solutions that are inclusive, accessible, and closely aligned with the realities of women’s lives.
Catapult Design partnered with Spindle Design, Dots (formerly known as Open Knowledge Framework), DODO Design, YUX, and Alt Unfold to better understand and prioritize the unmet needs of women as they relate to modern contraceptive methods. In regions like Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal, contraceptive choices are often developed without sufficient input from women. This disconnect leads to solutions that may not fully address the nuanced and diverse preferences shaping women’s contraceptive decision-making.
The platform was used to document a robust set of insights, grounded in real stories and women’s experiences to helping inform the development of contraceptive solutions that are inclusive, accessible, and closely aligned with the realities of women’s lives.
Features and Integrations
Features & Integrations


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Custom Templates for Data Upload
Configurable templates allow for custom forms for each immersion and research team to have their own structure to upload research notes and media albeit with a unifying tag architecture
Custom Templates for Data Upload
Configurable templates allow for custom forms for each immersion and research team to have their own structure to upload research notes and media albeit with a unifying tag architecture
Participant Management
Supported the registration of participants to unify data for each participants across multiple immersions of the longitudinal study that took place across several months
Participant Management
Supported the registration of participants to unify data for each participants across multiple immersions of the longitudinal study that took place across several months
Annotation
Configured tag systems allow team members across geographies to collaborate on uploaded research notes to complete annotation to uncover key quotes and patterns
Annotation
Configured tag systems allow team members across geographies to collaborate on uploaded research notes to complete annotation to uncover key quotes and patterns
Custom Analysis Views
Have been setup to help research teams collate annotations, and custom tables structure and analyse data from tagged fields to gain deeper insight into the patterns from the research notes
Custom Analysis Views
Have been setup to help research teams collate annotations, and custom tables structure and analyse data from tagged fields to gain deeper insight into the patterns from the research notes
Data Management & Review
As the project played out across a longer period of time, and geographies, various collection page views, along with data exports supported the team to manage the research and data efficiently through the course of the project
Data Management & Review
As the project played out across a longer period of time, and geographies, various collection page views, along with data exports supported the team to manage the research and data efficiently through the course of the project
Access Control
Access Control
Allows the Catapult team to control access such that the data is secure from non-project users, and also to separate access between research teams as required

The analysis dashboard proved invaluable by visually presenting research data through word clouds and other data visualization tools. This automated analysis significantly streamlined our quantitative work. On the qualitative side, the platform excelled as a repository for retrieving specific quotes and stories from participants, adding rich context to our numerical findings.

Haleemah Sadiah, Senior Designer

The analysis dashboard proved invaluable by visually presenting research data through word clouds and other data visualization tools. This automated analysis significantly streamlined our quantitative work. On the qualitative side, the platform excelled as a repository for retrieving specific quotes and stories from participants, adding rich context to our numerical findings.

Haleemah Sadiah, Senior Designer

The analysis dashboard proved invaluable by visually presenting research data through word clouds and other data visualization tools. This automated analysis significantly streamlined our quantitative work. On the qualitative side, the platform excelled as a repository for retrieving specific quotes and stories from participants, adding rich context to our numerical findings.

Haleemah Sadiah, Senior Designer
Platform Intervention

Current Status
The current phase of the project has been concluded with a global analysis of the data after the research in Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal have been completed. The output of the project is being used by the intended audience, and the platform is live and accessible to enable continuous access.

Current Status
The current phase of the project has been concluded with a global analysis of the data after the research in Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal have been completed. The output of the project is being used by the intended audience, and the platform is live and accessible to enable continuous access.

Current Status
The current phase of the project has been concluded with a global analysis of the data after the research in Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal have been completed. The output of the project is being used by the intended audience, and the platform is live and accessible to enable continuous access.