Future Thieving #2—Speculative design methods and tools

Combining science fiction world-building techniques with design to discover unseen potential futures. Part 2.

Damien Lutz
UX Collective
Published in
11 min readAug 4, 2020

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Photo of graffiti of Michael J Fox in Back To The Future — by Naomi Tamar at Unsplash
Photo by Naomi Tamar on Unsplash

DDesigning for tomorrow is like having a time machine that takes you to alternate futures. You’ll be tempted to visit the Utopias, but only a devoted Future Thief will visit the Dystopias…

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