The Life-centred Design Guide

by Damien Lutz

Life-centred design aligns 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. The Guide also includes introductions to 11 key design practices that combine in life-centred Accompanied by the online toolkit at lifecentred.design, readers can expand their experience by accessing learning exercises, tools, strategies, and resources. Life-centred design gives designers the skills and mindsets to respond to today's wicked problems in tangible, practical, and measurable ways.

Genres: Design

262 pages, Paperback

Published June 29, 2022

About the author

Damien Lutz is a Sydney-based UX designer, researcher, teacher and writer. He is the author of the speculative design guide Future Scouting, The Life-centred Design Guide, and two science fiction novels, The Lenz and Amanojaku. He also writes about emerging and experimental design on Medium and runs workshops and guest lectures.

Damien has made it his personal purpose to scout the fringes of design to empower the community with more awareness of what can be done with design to create a kinder and more regenerative world, for today and tomorrow.

Reviews

[Rich · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really like what Damien has put together but I found it difficult to read. I’ll use more as a reference book for sure.

A very good summary of tools, techniques and ideas. Something on the beginning of its journey, certainly aspirational and useful.

I’m sure as it evolves and is refined this will become a go to text for how we design with all life in mind.

[Michael Andersen · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is really good, and I was surprised about how much information you find in it. I will definitely recommend this to all designers I know!

The only reason I don’t give it 5 stars is because the book is hard to read. The language makes use of difficult language and often sentences have to be read multiple times to be fully understood.