Future Scouting®—Designing Future Products
$55.00
- 15 Lessons
- Beginner level
- Includes 9 downloadable worksheets and access to 5 digital card decks
- Online and at your own pace
- For product/UX/UI and service designers, product owners, innovators, and anyone wanting to learn futuring
- Certificate
- Free Future Scouting® Membership
- 12 month access
Description
What you will learn
Future Scouting®—Designing Future Products combines product design, life-centred thinking, and the science fiction world-building of speculative design to guide you step-by-step to create a future values-driven product
Futures literacy
- Recognise the types and potentials of futures
- Ground futures thinking with values
- Identify signals of emerging change
- Ground speculation in realism
- Synthesise signal research into a product
- Brainstorm future scenarios
- Ideate future stakeholders
- Brainstorm future story detail
- Visually articulate future worlds
Futures tools
- The Futures Cone
- The Future Scouting® Dashboard
- Signal Tracing
- Research Map
- Invention Blueprint
- The Futures Wheel
- Scenario Futures Wheel
- Future Persona
- Story Futures Wheel
- Future Location Snapshot
“Useful for spotting concepts/exercises that I can draw on in my everyday design work with clients.”
Mackenzie, Service Designer
The project
Using the Future Scouting® method and guided by your core values you’ll create:
- An Invention Blueprint
- A Future Persona
- A Future Location snapshot
- A prototype of your future invention that you’ll be able to share in various ways, including stocking your invention in the ALT-FUTRS store
“An incredible learning experience”
Course Outline
Introduction
- Introduction
About speculative design
- Lesson 1—About speculative design
- Lesson 2—Speculative Design Examples
- Lesson 3: The Future Scouting method
Step 1. Prepare to time-travel
- Lesson 4: The Futures Cone
- Lesson 5: The Future Scouting® Dashboard
Step 2. Catch a signal
- Lesson 6: Signals of the futures
- Lesson 7: Signal Tracing
Step 3. Hunt an invention
- Lesson 8: Research Map
- Lesson 9: Invention Blueprint
Step 4. Release your invention
- Lesson 10: The Futures Wheel
- Lesson 11: Scenario Futures Wheel
Step 5. Hero and future world
- Lesson 12: Future Persona
- Lesson 13: Story Futures Wheel
- Lesson 14: Future Location Snapshot
Step 6. Prototype and share
- Lesson 15: Prototype and share
Welcome back to your Now
- Welcome back to your Now
- Further learning
The Future Scouting® Method
Future Scouting®—Designing Future Products is based on the Future Scouting® book, which was used to develop The Maya Lenz concept for the sci-fi novel The Lenz, and the game, which has been played around the world and was a recipient of a Notable Design Education Initiative Award in the Core 77 Design Awards 2021.
Ready to design for the future?
If you’ve ever imagined a better version of your favourite device, products that consider the environment and social justice, or innovating ways to improve the lives of others, let Future Scouting® show you how to design the values-aligned technology products of tomorrow.
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