The Life-centred Design Guide

Life-centred design is a regenerative and globally-inclusive framework synching responsible businesses and designers with global goals to design physical and digital products and services that re-nourish the 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 it are few how it is practised varies and hybridisation of physical and digital product design strategies is nascent.The Life-Centred Design Guide introduces a collection of todays life-centred design approaches and speculates a Future Snapshot of what the framework might become if the variations merged.Accompanied by the Life-centred Design Resource Hub the Guide includes learning exercises tools strategies and introductions to 11 key supporting practices: Circular designInclusive designPluriversal designSystems thinkingDistributed designSustainable digital designBehavioural designInterspecies designBiomimicryForesightHuman-centred designLife-centred design gives designers the skills and mindsets to respond to todays wicked problems in tangible practical and measurable ways.