Design Is [Speculative] Futures Design Thinking - a new toolkit for preemptive design

Speculative Design is an approach that considers alternate futures for technology and society. Through prototyping and/or defining scenarios, important discussions about ethics or the impact of design on the environment and culture can be brought to the forefront of the design process. Sometimes considered alarmist and sensational, it’s still a powerful tool for design.
Companies are applying this approach to business strategies or articulating visions for emerging technologies. They are speculating on everything from the future of their products to eliciting communities for input to developing new services. Speculative Design’s potential for application is so diverse that it can be used as a lens to consider a more holistic approach to problems and uncover new questions about the future that we may have never asked.
Phil shares several projects from Apple’s early vision of the iPad to how governments are using it to design new services today. He also covers some basic framework for how to begin looking at the future and consider all the potential factors and environments that could influence your products or services.
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[@threeelancer]

Empathy for the people who are living in an era not yet reached. Incredible.

[@dominusloreto]

Great conference, It really made me reflect about the future. Keep posting about speculative design!

[@jameels227]

Awesome!

[@EmmatheIsh]

Is anyone creeped out by the first 2 examples

[@vivek_krishna]

Everyday. New Learnings.

[@sravyasudha1559]

No DNA examination would reveal if you have myopia/hypermetropia, they're acquired later in life.

[@yukihiroshibata5638]

But it may speculate about it if you may have it along in your life.

[@susanwilhite8696]

Whether something is technically feasible is beside the point of Speculative Design. It's all about spurring imagination.

[@starterclick6362]

Seriously, am the first viewer

[@EmmatheIsh]

Technology & design 🤝 capitalism = speculative design ?