Hi, I’m Damien Lutz.
I’m a designer, author, futurist, and life-centred design advocate.
I’m based in Sydney, Australia, home of the traditional custodians, the Gadigal people.
My books
I started writing science fiction in 2014, then published Future Scouting to share the method I used to design my future scenarios and technologies. This then led me to develop my life-centred design framework which combined cross-disciplinary practices to design for planetary good.
Fringe design practices I’ve studied
Having completed a Masters of Design Science (Digital Media) in 2008 at Sydney University, I’ve since expanded my skills to become cross-disciplinary and future-explorative
Life-centred Design
Systems Thinking
Sustainable UX
Circular Design
Biomimicry
Designing Futures
Teaching life-centred design in Italy
Some industry achievements
My life-centred design and futures work featured in Ideia Magazine, Portugal
“This book stands as a remarkable resource in our field”—Design For Good
My Future Scouting game received a Notable Design Education Initiative Award in the Core 77 Design Awards 2021.
My cover design for my sci-fi novel The Lenz was the December 2019 winner of the e-Book Cover Design Award in Fiction
My design and creative work
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.
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↗.
Designing Futures
To introduce designers to future thinking, I also founded futurscouting.com.au↗ to share my Future Scouting® book↗, course, game and toolkit.
Fringe Design Blog
Today, I share my futuring and life-centred design exploration on Medium↗.
Talks & Workshops
And at times, I’m honoured to be asked to talk and workshop about my futuring and life-centred design work.
Science Fiction
I started designing with the future with science fiction, speculating future technology, societies, and environmental states through three speculative fiction books.
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.
I acknowledge the Gadigal people as the traditional custodians of Sydney and thank them for their knowledge
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