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The Non-human Persona Guide

The Non-human Persona Guide

Learn how to design with non-human personas to respect the needs of nature and invisible humans.

2023

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The Life-centred Design Guide

Align your project, team, and business with global goals to create more regenerative and socially just products

2 min readJun 15, 2022

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The Life-centred Design Guide

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Bootcamp

How to get started with life-centred design

Tips and tools for digital and product designers to start designing more sustainable, regenerative, inclusive, and diverse solutions

5 min readJul 27, 2023

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A delicate sapling just arisen through the forest floor and surrounded by towering matures trees which it will become like some day.

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UX Collective

Non-human personas and totems

Should industries create non-human personas for their collective resources, and be guided by the traditional wisdom of totemism, to deepen…

10 min readApr 14, 2023

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Circles of nature and animals floating above a designer’s work desk.

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Damien Lutz
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UX Collective

4 women who made modern design more life-centred

Supporting Women’s History Month, I celebrate these 4 women whose work made a massive impact on me and the world by redirecting design…

9 min readMar 11, 2023

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A silhouette of four women facing the future

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Damien Lutz
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Bootcamp

8 steps to using non-human personas in digital design

Insights from interviews and experimentation from designers around the world are synthesised into practical steps for applying non-human…

15 min readJun 24, 2023

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A Photo by Olena Sergienko on Unsplash of a forest from above, with the outline of a website layout overlayed on top

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Damien Lutz
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UX Collective

5 design projects using non-human personas to give nature a voice

Interviews with practitioners show how digital designers can use non-human personas to design more planet-friendly experiences

13 min readMar 4, 2023

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A deer paused in a forest and staring straight at the camera—Photo by Scott Carroll on unsplash.com

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Damien Lutz
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Bootcamp

Experimenting with non-human personas and UX

Non-human personas represent the lifeforms indirectly impacted by a product’s lifecycle, but how might a solo UX designer use them with…

12 min readFeb 22, 2023

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Experimenting with non-human personas and UX

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Damien Lutz
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UX Collective

Uncreative: will AI eat human creativity alive?

Humans have long prided themselves on their creativity and its resilience to AI, but combinations of AI tools suggest a future where human…

7 min readJun 24, 2023

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An AI robot woman eating juicy, dripping fruit which represents human creativity—Image by a prompted Midjourney

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Damien Lutz
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UX Collective

An inclusive and planet-friendly digital style guide

Sustainable, accessible, diverse, and ethical design can make digital better for all life—let’s embed them into our style guides to…

10 min readDec 22, 2022

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A non-binary person with a cane, a non-binary person sitting in a power wheelchair, and an invisibly disabled femme smiling and taking a cell phone selfie together.

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Damien Lutz
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Bootcamp

Nudging grocery shoppers to buy planet-friendly alternatives

How might we enable sustainable grocery shopping choices using behavioural UX?

16 min readJun 24, 2023

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Damien Lutz

Damien Lutz

Book Author

Exploring fringe design practices to design life-centred futures—from the founder of lifecentred.design and futurescouting.com.au

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