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 today's 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 design Inclusive design Pluriversal design Systems thinking Distributed design Sustainable digital design Behavioural design Interspecies design Biomimicry Foresight Human-centred design Life-centred design gives designers the skills and mindsets to respond to today's wicked problems in tangible, practical, and measurable ways.