Life-centred design education for digital, industrial, and urban designers
Learn sustainable and regenerative design with our unique courses, tools, and a free design academy.
What is life-centred Design?
Life-centred design (LCD) is an emerging design approach expanding human-centred and profit/growth-focused business to support a balanced existence for all life on the planet
Do Less Harm
Design solutions that take less from the planet and people, produce less waste and pollution, and include more people.
Do More Good
Regenerate what you take from, support broader industry and global initiatives, and align with the planetary ecosystem.
Your Life-centred Design Guide
How the LCD Lab helps designers and business innovators shape responsible futures
Life-centred Design Courses
Professional training in Sustainable UX, circular product design, and regenerative strategy for designers and business innovators.
Life-centred Design Guides
Practical books and frameworks that help you expand your design practice beyond the human user and into ecological systems thinking.
Life-centred Design Tools
Applied tools like Ecosystem Mapping and Non-human Personas that bring nature, materials, and impacted lifeforms into everyday design decisions.
Life-centred Design Academy
A free learning space with curated resources, project examples, and pathways to help you grow into a Life-centred Design professional.
5 Years
Since 2020, we’ve been advancing life-centred design through research, experiments, implementation, and teaching.
4 Countries
We’ve delivered workshops and talks across Australia, Italy, Portugal, and Germany, building global awareness.
3400+ Countries
We’ve reached over 3400 designers and innovators through our courses, workshops, talks, books, papers, and articles (so far!)
110 Trees
We’ve planted 110 trees (so far) to regenerate the trees taken to produce our books.
Learn Life-centred Design
Life-centred Design courses for Digital Professionals
What is Life-centred Digital Design?
Learn how Sustainable UX and Regenerative Digital Business reduce planetary harm and do more good.
What is Sustainable UX?
Learn a full suite of Sustainable UX Design strategies to fight climate change and inequality.
What is Low-carbon UX?
Learn this core aspect of Sustainable UX to design low-energy digital experiences that produce less carbon emissions.
What are non-human personas?
Learn how to create and innovate with these life-centred design tools to give voice to impacted nature and communities.
Life-centred Design courses for Industrial Professionals
What is Life-centred Industrial Design?
Learn the basics of Life-centred Design, Sustainable and Circular Design, and Regenerative Business.
How do I apply Life-centred Industrial Design?
Learn a full suite of circular, inclusive, and regenerative product and business design strategies.
How do I apply Life-centred Industrial Design?
Live classes for learning a full suite of circular, inclusive, and regenerative product and business design strategies.
What are non-human personas?
Learn how to create and innovate with these life-centred design tools to give voice to impacted nature and communities.
“My goal was new tools for service portfolio – I got that but feel I learned so much more… A lot of inspiration for changing my business”
Manuela Risch, Product Discovery and Innovation Consultant
“I enjoyed the activities and deep dive into product design and material life cycles, considering the impacts on the natural world”
Rebecca Dawson, Sustainability and Adaptation Worker
“The approach brilliantly adopts language that marketers and service designers already use”
Colin Jowell, Principal at Good Behaviour
Life-centred Design Tools & Resources
Tools & Resources
Free tools and resources curated for Digital, Industrial, and Urban Design, to start experimenting
Libraries
Get inspired by libraries of case studies, design projects, and the Non-human Persona Library
Design Branches
Explore the design branches that merge in LCD, such as non-human personas, biomimicry, futuring, and more
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