I recently met with someone who is blind to learn how they experience digital experiences.
At times it was excruciating to watch.
Their screen reader ranted confusing, incomplete information, and the user couldn’t know everything that was on the page or how to navigate it properly.
An essential task, like…
We designed this ‘now’ we are in, this volatile moment hinging on how well we handle the pandemic and climate change.
We just didn’t design it fully conscious.
But something is going on in the collective designer mind as this ‘now’ wavers in its direction between alternate futures.
There’s a…
To manage complex projects, designers have to employ a type of Minority Report mental mode — holding multiple streams of input from users and stakeholders high in their consciousness to ensure they’re all considered fairly and as required.
But how do we stay centred around an awareness of our own…
By now, no one needs to quote facts or expert verbatim to argue that great changes are happening to both human and earth systems. …
Speculative design took form in the early 1990s as designers questioned their role in consumerism’s impact on the planet. They began to consider how to align design with core values.
With interest in designing for the future on the increase, this is an exciting time for designers. But with the…
After months of trawling the web for speculative design tools and methods during the early pandemic lockdown of 2020, I struggled to find a simplified, detailed, end-to-end speculative design method that was as succinct as the double-diamond framework for innovation.
There were complete methods, for sure, (and more coming through…
Imagine you’re standing in your living room alone and you put on your Hololens. You raise your hand, and an AR menu hovers above it — you interact with the menu with just a finger and start a meeting. A virtual table stand appears in front of you, and avatars…
Well thought out, thanks for sharing, all the images and tips, too, your efforts are much appreciated!
As designers and product creators, we are not just producing items with a lifecycle defined by human use. …
Speculative Design is a design practice combining science fiction world-building techniques with design to create prototypes of future artefacts to provoke thinking and discussion about potential futures beyond what we think is possible.
The practice emerged in the 1990s as designers began to question their role in consumerism’s impact on…
