Future Design Mission
A fast Speculative Design tool for exploring future values-driven technologies
Flip cards to receive your mission
Design a product that uses…
controlled by…
to foster…
1 – Prepare to Time-travel
Get a pen and paper for each player
2 – Flip cards to receive your mission
Different ways to play
Solo
Flip all cards to receive your mission
Alternate futures
All players flip their own Technology and Interaction cards, but one player flips one Key Value card and all players design for that Value
One future
All players flip their own Interaction cards, but one player flips the Technology and Key Value cards, and all players design for that Technology and Value
Experiment
Make up your own combination!
3 – Ideate for 7 mins
Write and/or sketch as many ideas as you can in response to your mission
4 – Present & Discuss
All players choose one idea they think has the most potential to enable the Key Value and shares with the team
5 – Share with the world
Take a pic of your designs and share them with the world using #futurescouting to generate thought and discussion
3 – Ideate for 7 mins
Write and/or sketch as many ideas as you can to complete your mission.
4 – Present & Discuss
All players choose one idea they think has the most potential to enable the Key Value and shares with the team.
If you’re playing on your own, share your idea with groups on social media, at a Meetup, co-workers, or friends, and give them a means to share their thoughts.
5 – Share with the world
Take a pic of your designs and share them with the world using #futurescouting to generate thought and discussion
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Scientists have created
a wormhole to alternate futures!
To help steer humanity toward a better tommorrow, you—a Future Design Scout—will be sent forward in time to design with future technologies.
Your mission is to bring back an invention that keeps the world aligned with a common Key Value (kindness, empathy, privacy, etc).
You’ll ideate, sketch, and review and sabotage other Scouts in your quest to design the invention that best enables the Key Value.
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Future Scouting is a Designing Futures project by UX Designer/sci-fi author Damien Lutz.
Wormhole icon by ProSymbols from the Noun Project. Hologram icon by Julien Deveaux from the Noun Project.