Future Scouting
A fun and practical step-by-step guide to designing life-centred, values-driven future tech products with speculative design
#1 Amazon New Release in Industrial Design, Feb 2021
For designers, product owners, and innovators
Drawing on the great work of futures and speculative design practitioners past and present, Future Scouting® combines speculative design, life-centred design, product design and design thinking into one values-driven method to get you saving the world and back to the present well before the next pandemic.
Based on the Future Scouting® game (Notable Design Education Initiative, Core77 Awards 2021), the guidebook includes downloadable worksheets to help you research, ideate, sketch, and storify as you learn how to:
– Catch a signal of emerging change
– Design a future invention
– Ideate a key scenario
– Extrude a hero and future world
– Compile your artefacts into a shareable prototype
“I just read Future Scouting and it’s on my top 5 recommendations list”
Phil Balagtas, Founder of the Design Futures Initiative
Book Resources
Future Scouting® is accompanied by various resources created specifically for the Future Scouting method—prompt cards, worksheets, and artefact sheets.
“A couple of weeks ago I finished my master thesis and your book Future Scouting was my guide to make my project happen. The methodology has been very useful for me and I loved the book! Great job and thanks for the canvases!”
Marisol Rammoser, UX Designer
Future Scouting in action
UX Designer Marisol Rammoser used Future Scouting for her thesis to explore how museums might evolve with biotechnology
"Lutz’s book gives us a toolkit to widen our frame of vision and stretch our creativity."
"A very good text for someone who wants to be introduced to futures & foresight knowledge."
"I liked the focus on designing for core values."
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