My Best Life
Seeking digital solutions to challenges young people face
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Young people, particularly young people living in poverty, face multiple complex challenges in their lives.
But our research has shown that it’s hard for young people to find help. And when they do, they often don’t feel that it’s ‘for them’.
My Best Life was an NPC project that sought to address this. We worked in collaboration with councils, charities, and young people to explore what services were on offer and develop digital solutions to help young people find them.
Read our 2018 report on our work with young people experiencing multiple disadvantages in Camden.
This project is now completed. We continued similar work this area through our Signpost+ project.
Insights
What have we learned about developing digital products for young people that might help other charities?
We collected our learnings into this four-part insights guide:
- Build the right experience
- Share clear and simple information
- Build trust throughout
- Maintain privacy needs
You can also watch this event video discussing how to meaningfully co-design with young people:
Blogs
Read blogs from the My Best Life team from throughout the programme:
- Talking to Youth Organisations about My Best Life, 15 October 2021
- How can My Best Life collaborate with other apps?, 25 June 2021
- What is the role of gatekeepers in My Best Life?, 5 February 2021
- The value of collaboration and working digitally, 12 May 2020
- Getting rid of the research phase, 11 November 2019
- Reflections on remote design sprints, 1 July 2020
- My Best Life, 18 July 2019
- 4 insights from working with experts by experience, 5 April 2018