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Studio 1947 Insights

Practical notes from our work.

Articles on the data, design, technology, research and communication problems we work on with organisations, NGOs, hospitals, colleges and businesses.

A website interface shown as the visible layer, resting on the users, content, technology, accessibility, analytics and organisational goals beneath it
Web & Digital Products

How to Plan a Website Redesign

A practical guide for NGOs, colleges and growing organisations: what to audit, what to keep, and how to protect search visibility during the move.

Rabi9 min read
Six layers a nonprofit website's credibility rests on, stacked: governance, impact, people, evidence, contact and security
Web & Digital Products

NGO Website Design in India

What a high-trust nonprofit website actually needs: evidence, clear audiences, accessible reports and a donation journey built on confidence.

Rabi8 min read
The pipeline from mobile field data collection through raw data, validation, a clean dataset and a database, to a live dashboard that supports a decision
Data & Dashboards

M&E Dashboards for NGOs

From field data to live decision-making: the pipeline behind a monitoring dashboard programme teams can actually trust.

Rabi9 min read
The pharmacy inventory cycle shown as a loop: purchase, batch, shelf, sale, return and expiry, feeding back into purchasing
Data & Dashboards

Pharmacy Inventory Management Software

What small pharmacies and distributors actually need: batch tracking, FEFO, fast billing and offline reliability.

Soumic Sarkar8 min read
A patient's digital journey to a regional hospital: search, trust, finding the right doctor or department, appointment, visit, and follow-up
Healthcare

Digital Transformation for Tier-2 & Tier-3 Hospitals

How regional hospitals reduce uncertainty before the patient reaches the front desk: website trust, appointments and patient experience.

Rabi8 min read
The evaluation sequence from problem and indicators through a baseline survey, the programme itself, an endline survey, and interpretation
Research & Evidence

Baseline & Endline Surveys

How NGOs build evidence funders trust: indicators, sampling, field methods, data quality and honest reporting of limitations.

Nikhil S9 min read
The path from a finding to evidence, to what it means, to the action a reader should take, shown as four connected stages
Design & Communication

Impact Report Design

How to turn research and programme data into impact reports that donors, partners and teams actually read and use.

Rabi8 min read
A college digital ecosystem connecting the public website, admissions, student records, attendance, fees and reports into one flow
Education

College Digital Transformation in India

College digital transformation as an operating change, not a software purchase: websites, admissions, ERP, data and staff adoption.

Santam9 min read
The same button label shown in English, Bengali, Hindi and Nepali, each a different width, illustrating how translated text expands
Design & Communication

Designing Multilingual Websites in India

Multilingual website design as a system problem: language selection, typography, text expansion, CMS workflows and testing.

Rabi9 min read
A traveller's discovery journey to a small hill homestay: Google search, Maps, an OTA listing, reviews, the website or WhatsApp, then booking
Local Business & Tourism

How Small Tourism Businesses in Darjeeling Can Get Found Online

A practical digital discovery guide for homestays and small tourism businesses in the Darjeeling hills.

Rahul8 min read
A two-column comparison: repetitive, rule-based, high-volume work is worth automating; judgment calls and relationship-sensitive work are not, yet
Data & Dashboards

AI Workflow Automation for Small Teams

What is actually worth automating for a small or mid-sized team, and what still needs a person.

Soumic Sarkar6 min read
A service blueprint showing the customer-visible frontstage steps above a line, and the backstage work that supports each one below it
Design & Communication

Service Blueprinting

How to fix a broken customer or user journey before building technology to paper over it.

Rabi6 min read
One shared set of design tokens, a colour, a button style and a text style, reused consistently across a website, an app and a campaign poster
Design & Communication

Design Systems for Growing Organisations

How to keep products, websites and campaigns consistent as more people and projects touch them.

Nikhil S6 min read
A three-stage sequence: listen to what people are already saying, understand what it means, then decide what to launch
Research & Evidence

Social Listening Before You Launch

What organisations can learn before launching a product, campaign or rebrand, if they listen first.

Rabi6 min read
The path from a single spreadsheet to structured data, a proper database, and reports several people can trust at once
Data & Dashboards

When Spreadsheets Stop Working

How growing teams should plan a proper data system once a spreadsheet stops being enough.

Soumic Sarkar7 min read
A two-column comparison of what belongs on a decision-making dashboard and what is decorative noise that should be left off
Data & Dashboards

Dashboard Design That Drives Decisions

What to show, what to hide, and what to measure so a dashboard actually changes what someone does.

Santam7 min read
A spectrum from off-the-shelf tools to fully custom software, with common scenarios placed along it depending on how standard or unique the workflow is
Data & Dashboards

Custom Software vs Off-the-Shelf Tools

When should a business build its own system instead of buying an off-the-shelf tool?

Soumic Sarkar7 min read
A campaign funnel narrowing from broad awareness through consideration to a real action, with likes and impressions shown as a thin, easily inflated top layer
Design & Communication

Plan a Campaign Around Outcomes

How to plan a campaign around business outcomes instead of likes and impressions.

Rahul7 min read
A two-column comparison: analytics shows what happened and where people dropped off; interviews explain why, in the user's own words
Design & Communication

Research Before Redesign

What user interviews can tell you before a redesign that analytics alone cannot.

Rabi7 min read
A four-stage progression from training through guided practice and support to a team working independently, without depending on the trainer
Education

Digital Skills Training Without Dependency

How to build digital capability in a team without creating dependency on the tool or the trainer.

Subhendu7 min read