Future Scouting: How to design future inventions to change today by combining speculative design, design fiction, design thinking, life

Future Scouting: How to design future inventions to change today by combining speculative design, design fiction, design thinking, lifeInside this book lies a multi future time machine, and by the time you finish reading it, you'll be plucking inventions from many possible futures but you won't need expert forecasting or complex data analysis skills to do it. Future Scouting is a fun and practical step by step guide to designing fantastic and thought provoking prototypes to inspire better tomorrows an exciting practice known as speculative design, or design fiction. Using a back

Inside this book lies a multi-future time machine, and by the time you finish reading it, you'll be plucking inventions from many possible futures-but you won't need expert forecasting or complex data analysis skills to do it.

Future Scouting is a fun and practical step-by-step guide to designing fantastic and thought-provoking prototypes to inspire better tomorrows-an exciting practice known as speculative design, or design fiction. Using a back-casting design approach-and included downloadable worksheets-you'll learn how to research, ideate, sketch, and storify, to:
- Catch a signal of emerging change
- Design a future invention- Ideate a key scenario
- Extrude a hero and future world
- Compile your artefacts into a shareable prototype.

Drawing on the great work of future studies and speculative design practitioners past and present, Future Scouting combines product design, design thinking, life-centred design, and science fiction into one complete method to get you saving the world and back to the present well before the next pandemic.