The Life-centred Design Guide - E-book - ePub

Life-centred design aligns responsible businessesand designers with global goals to design physicaland digital products and services that re-nourishthe planet and foster fair and diverse ways of being. Life-centred design is still emerging, however, so awareness of it is low, those who practise itare few, how it is practised varies, and hybridisationof physical and digital product design strategiesis nascent.
The Life-Centred Design Guide introduces a collection of today's life-centred design approaches and speculates a 'Future Snapshot' of what the framework might become if the variations merged. The Guide also includes introductions to 11 key design practices that combine in life-centred design:. Circular design. Inclusive design. Pluriversal design. Systems thinking. Distributed design. Sustainable digital design.
Behavioural design. Interspecies design. Biomimicry. Foresight. Human-centred design Accompanied by the online toolkit at lifecentred.design, readers can expand their experience by accessing learning exercises, tools, strategies, and resources. Life-centred design gives designers the skillsand mindsets to respond to today's wicked problemsin tangible, practical, and measurable ways.