A Good Life is an interactive web-based tool for creating and sharing visualisations of a person’s life. It provides a rich and clear understanding of a person’s lived experience and allows users to better understand the balance between cost, complexity, risk and quality of life in support and care contexts. This visual overview is more immediate and clear than impressions pieced together from shift notes, incident reports or support plans.
It was developed by Northcott Innovation, design consultancy Parallel Lines and UTS School of Design.
With its strong grounding in the realities of disability support, A Good Life is a powerful tool with impact at multiple levels:
It also has the potential to have impact beyond the disability sector. While A Good Life has been designed for people with disabilities, it could be used in aged care, dementia support, palliative care and other care and support contexts.
A Good Life won an Australian Good Design Award in 2024 in the Social Impact category.
We thank the Profield Foundation who have generously supported this project as part of their commitment to addressing social disadvantage and improving the well-being of all Australians.
