Let’s do
more good
with design

Damien Lutz

Designer, Author, Futurist

damienlutz@live.com.au

As a UX/UI Designer and Researcher, I help businesses understand their challenges and then deliver experience solutions that balance desirability, feasibility, and viability.

Through my design hubs—futurescouting.com.au and lifecentred.design—I explore fringe design frameworks and tools to inspire and enable designers and businesses to create more values-driven, sustainable, and socially just solutions.

The Future Scouting Book
The Life-centred Design Guide book
The Non-human Persona Guide book standing on an angle

Let’s do more good with design

Damien Lutz

Designer, Author, Futurist

As a UX/UI Designer and Researcher, I help businesses understand their challenges and then deliver experience solutions that balance desirability, feasibility, and viability.

Through my design hubs—futurescouting.com.au and lifecentred.design—I explore fringe design frameworks and tools to inspire and enable designers and businesses to create more values-driven, sustainable, and socially just solutions.

IDEA MAGAZINE FEAUTURE - Damien Lutz

Featured in Ideia Magazine, Portugal

Photo of myself and the other panelists talking to Tina Fung, the organiser of the Speculative Futures Sydney in-person panel discussion about futuring.

Speaking on the Speculative Futures Sydney panel

A Notable Educational Honouree in 2021 Core77 Design Awards

UX/UI Design

As a UX Designer and Researcher, I design human-centred digital experiences for commercial and government projects that balance desirability, viability, and feasibility while being inclusive, accessible, and looking out for the vulnerable.

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Life-centred Design

Evolving human-centred design to also consider the environment and social justice, I produced the first life-centred design framework↗ in The Life-centred Design Guide↗, The Non-human Persona Guide, and I founded lifecentred.design↗.

lifecentred.design
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Designing Futures

To introduce designers to future thinking, I also founded futurscouting.com.au↗ to share my Future Scouting® book↗, course, game and toolkit.

Future Scouting
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Science Fiction

I started designing with the future with science fiction, speculating future technology, societies, and environmental states through three speculative fiction books.

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Fringe Design Blog

Today, I share my futuring and life-centred design exploration on Medium↗.

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Talks & Workshops

And at times, I’m honoured to be asked to talk and workshop about my futuring and life-centred design work.

Talks & Workshops

Drone Filming

When I can, I get off the planet a bit to see it from above and appreciate things in a way I never could before—with my DJI drone.

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A Spark Drone by DJI
Flags for First Nations Australians and Torres Straight Islanders

I acknowledge the Gadigal people as the traditional custodians of Sydney and thank them for their knowledge

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I support equality that unites the community. You can support too↗

I support sustainable product design by regenerating the materials of my books. You can support too↗

All my sites are Green Hosted↗

Contact me @ damienlutz@live.com.au