A blind spot in modern user-centered design is the difficulty in handling the 'unintended use case'.

What was that box of breakfast cereal doing in Minority Report, anyway? A sci-fi film set in the future? And breakfast cereal?

Have you ever gotten one of these emails? Where the future is zipped up into a PowerPoint deck and then sent around in an email with the expectation that the recipients will open and read it and then become excited...

The Design Fiction Product Design Work Kit is a card-based game for exploring futures studies and engaging in design fiction as a methodology. This little film provides an introduction to the 2nd edition of the Work Kit, showcasing how it can be used to imagine and create material cultural artifacts that represent the symptoms and implications of various futures.

Some notes on what we did last month.

“The contents of your shopping basket may change. Almost 30% of our food currently comes from the EU, and it is likely that some foods, such as fresh vegetables and fruit, will become more scarce and more expensive in the event of no deal.”

We are super excited and thrilled that the term “Design Fiction” is being heard beyond the relatively small community of designers who have been practicing it over the last decade or so. More organizations and teams are now coming to us looking for a fresh and different approach to addressing their needs, concerns,…

When discussing and writing about the future of cities with autonomous vehicles, it is easy to skip over complex details in favor of the “big headlines”.

The business of dishonest automation and how the engineers, data scientists and designers behind it can fix it