21-10-2025 01:16 PM
21-10-2025 01:16 PM
🎉 Big news, Forumites! 🎉
We’re so proud to share that the SANE Forums has won Gold at the 2025 Good Design Awards for our Forums redesign late last year! 🥇
This award is about so much more than design — it’s about you, our community! Community co-design was at the heart of this project, with insights from 572 lived experience survey responses, 60 in-depth Forum discussions, and 15 user testing interviews helping to shape every step.
We listened to what mattered most to you and, together with our design partners at Colosl, brought your ideas to life — creating a space that helps people connect faster, feel supported, and find what they need more easily.
This award celebrates not just thoughtful design, but what’s possible when a community comes together to create something truly meaningful. 💖
A huge thank you to everyone who took part in the co-design process or shared feedback along the way. Your voices made this possible — and continue to make this community what it is today. 🤗
Check out our full announcement here: https://www.sane.org/news/sane-wins-gold-in-the-2025-good-design-awards
21-10-2025 02:50 PM
21-10-2025 02:58 PM
21-10-2025 02:58 PM
That’s cool.
I was actually thinking about the codesign the other day and what happened to it? There was all these amazing ideas and so much was put into it but unless I’ve been living under a rock, I haven’t actually seen much change??
21-10-2025 03:41 PM
21-10-2025 03:41 PM
21-10-2025 03:54 PM
21-10-2025 03:54 PM
hey @Bow 😊
maybe this site might help map out some of those changes (if you click the words on the right hand side, it expands more info): Sane Recovery Community - Good Design
21-10-2025 04:09 PM
21-10-2025 04:09 PM
Hmm doesn’t really say much @rav3n i just remember putting so many hours into those codesign discussions and did one of them long one on one interviews and apart from some cosmetic changes haven’t really seen much.
but that’s ok. Doesn’t matter All good
21-10-2025 04:56 PM
21-10-2025 04:56 PM
There have been heaps of change so the hours you’ve put in have been put to good use. We’ve enhanced the hubs, added additional spaces, merged the carer forum, listened to feedback about changing the community guidelines which have now been co-designed by the community, added an events section, ensured there are regular events, made changes to allowing the community to see who is online.
Have you connected with any of these new events @Bow ?
It’s also important to remember that we had to drip feed the changes to the community so the changes didn’t happen overnight. We gave plenty of warning, provided dates and updates about each change.
Sometimes, when change happens slowly, they are less noticeable and impactful - which was also feedback from the forums community that they wanted the changes to have least impact, especially if they were feeling vulnerable.
So yes, we have listened and we have heard.
The feedback may also be carried over to the next step of design, so watch this space.
There was also a long consultation process in the form of a closed hub so that all changes were in consultation with the community.
To the wider forums community, Thank you for all your support and feedback. We look forward to continuing working with you through SANE’s transformational journey!
21-10-2025 05:20 PM
21-10-2025 05:20 PM
CONGRATULATIONS SANE for getting Gold ❤️
21-10-2025 07:05 PM
21-10-2025 07:05 PM
@rav3n that is such incredible news!!!!
😍🎉
I wasn't volunteering here prior to the redesign, but I will say the forums are fantastic and well designed - I'm so incredibly happy SANE has won gold!!!
21-10-2025 07:17 PM
21-10-2025 07:17 PM
Wow Congratulations 🥇 SANE and everyone who was involved and supplied feedback etc
I'm sure it was a huge job.
I haven't been here very long but I have noticed some changes in that time.
Well done
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