About

Public Good Alliance is an experiment. It was started by Matthew Miller, a designer with side projects to share and a question to ask: is anyone else building things the same way?

This isn't a platform. It isn't a community yet. It's a public act of contribution, work made for citizens rather than consumers, put into the open rather than left on a shelf. The word Alliance is a declaration, a knowing dare, well before it's a description. That's where you come in.

The projects here share a thread: they help people find their way, with each other, with themselves, in a world where the nature of work, art, identity, and value are increasingly less certain. Some are free. Some aren't. Some are ready for you to use right now. Some need your brain or muscle to get them out into the hands of others. All are made to help, not to extract.

If you're building something that belongs here, you're already part of this.

As citizens we are human beings in relationship with one another. As consumers we are individuals and units within a profit model. Work on this site serves the former. It may be a project, a service, a product, or an opportunity... the category doesn't matter. The intent does.

The Public Good Alliance is rooted in a belief that design, at its best, serves people and the world. Matthew witnessed the power of public interest design first hand when he established a strategic design culture and participatory design programs within Canada's healthcare system. One person became a few, a few become a force. This site, right here, right now, is also a good place to start.

Joining the Alliance is easy. Have you created something useful that is also good for the world? Share it here in a sentence or two along with a link. Boom, that's it.