Human-Centered Design Studio

We design solutions that work for real people.

LaMission is a Human-Centered Design studio. We help individuals, teams and organisations understand what is not working, design better solutions, and make them last.

The solution was obvious once someone actually listened to us.

Team leader, Kenya

We had the budget. We just did not have the right question.

Project manager, Ghana

Three days with your team changed how we make decisions.

Director, Rwanda

I did not expect a weekend retreat to change how I make decisions.

Retreat participant

We stopped guessing and started building from what we heard.

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Listen first

Every project starts by understanding the real situation, not the assumed one.

All

All sectors

Private companies, public institutions, NGOs, startups and individuals: the method works everywhere.

Built

Built to last

We design with the people involved, so solutions hold after we leave.

One

One method

Human-Centered Design, applied rigorously to every brief, every scale.

About us

A studio that starts with the problem, not the answer.

LaMission is a Human-Centered Design studio. We work with organisations, teams and individuals who have a problem to solve, a service to improve, a decision to make better, or a change to sustain.

We apply the same rigorous method whether the client is a company launching a product, a public institution redesigning a service, a team that needs to work differently, or an individual who wants to use HCD to navigate a challenge in their own life.

The sector does not define the method. The problem does.

All sectors Bilingual FR / EN Organisations and individuals

Methodology

Four steps. One honest process.

Each phase ends with something concrete you can hold, argue with, and take into the next room.

Phase 01 of 04

Listen & Discover

We observe, interview and immerse ourselves in the situation before proposing anything. This phase often reveals that the stated problem and the real problem are not the same thing.

What you get

Field research Interviews Situation map Key insights

Services

What we do.

Strategic Design & Innovation

We help organisations and teams clarify what problem they are actually solving, then design the right response: product, service, process or strategy.

Research & Diagnosis

Interviews, observations, surveys and field work. We find what is really happening and turn it into clear, actionable findings.

Workshops & Facilitation

Co-design sessions, strategy days, team workshops. We design and run the sessions so your group leaves with decisions made.

Service & Experience Design

Products, services and digital experiences designed around the people who will actually use them.

Training & Capacity Building

We teach Human-Centered Design to teams so they can run the method themselves.

Events

Learn the method. Apply it to your own life.

Our courses teach the method to professionals, in any sector. Our Dakar events apply it directly to one personal challenge, in a single session.

Foundations

Human-Centered Design essentials

The full HCD cycle in three days. You work on a real brief from your own context and leave with a tested approach and a method you can use immediately.

3 days Dakar, in person Any professional who designs, decides or delivers
Next session: 12 to 14 November 2026
Intermediate

Research & interviewing

How to listen properly, ask questions that do not lead the answer, and turn what you hear into findings your organisation can act on.

2 days Dakar, in person Anyone who gathers information to make decisions
Next session: 3 to 4 December 2026
Intermediate

Facilitating co-design workshops

Design and run workshops where people actually build things together, including when the room disagrees. Works for any context.

3 days Dakar, in person Facilitators, managers, project leads
Next session: 21 to 23 January 2027

All courses run in French or English and can be adapted to your team's level and sector.

Programme

HCD applied to individuals and teams.

IndividualsRetreatPersonal HCD

The Life Design Retreat

An immersive retreat that applies HCD to personal challenges: career transitions, life decisions, projects under uncertainty. Away from routine, with the structure of a method, not just advice.

3 days

away, from a real challenge to a tested personal strategy

TeamsOrganisationsChange

The Team Reset Sprint

A five-day intensive that helps teams redesign how they work together: their meetings, their decisions, their collaboration patterns.

5 days

from diagnosis to a new working model, tested

OrganisationsStrategyDesign

The Organisation Design Lab

A structured engagement that helps organisations redesign a product, service or internal process using HCD from start to finish.

8 weeks

from brief to a tested, documented solution

What people say

From people who did the work.

I came with a career problem. I left with a method I now use on everything.
Programme participant

Life Design cohort

Let's begin

You have a problem. We have a method.

Tell us what you are working on. We will come back within two working days with a first read.

Start a project

A name, an email and a few lines are enough.

They trusted us

Some of the organisations we have worked with.

Public agencies, international programmes, private companies and NGOs: the method travels.

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Accredited centre for international digital certifications

LaMission is accredited to run examinations and issue internationally recognised certifications in digital skills.

Accredited centreRecognised certificationsSessions in Dakar