Life-centred Design Projects

Design projects evolving products, services, and businesses to be more sustainable, regenerative, and kinder to the people, animals, and environments they impact.

Life-centred Design Projects

Connecting with people from diverse practices and industries who are also exploring and/or practising life-centred design aspects

Life-centred Product, Service, and Business Design

How might Instagram use its predictive algorithm to reduce e-waste?
How might a small business be a force for sustainability and kindness?
How might e-commerce encourage sustainable shopping?
How might we design websites to use less energy and produce less carbon?
How might UX Designers use a non-human persona for Nature?
How might a mattress manufacturer regenerate the river systems it impacts?

Life-centred Design Process

A Life-centred Design Framework
A Life-centred Design Web Style Guide

Life-centred Design Guides

The Life-centred Design Guide book
The Non-Human Persona Guide book

Take the lead

Lead the way by redesigning your products and business to reduce environmental and social harm and regenerate the people and environments your system relies on.

“The ideas really resonated with me as I’ve felt this growing unease with human centred design’s echo chamber”

“Super helpful tools for designers… I’ll be sharing them with the students.”

“An amazing book about the topic.”

Two books standing on and angle, The Non-human Persona Guide and The Life-centred Design Guide

#2 Amazon Best Seller in Engineering Design, Dec ’22 (The Life-centred Design Guide)

Get the books

Take the lead

Lead the way by redesigning your products and business to reduce environmental and social harm and regenerate the people and environments your system relies on.

Two books standing on and angle, The Non-human Persona Guide and The Life-centred Design Guide

#2 Amazon Best Seller in Engineering Design, Dec ’22 (The Life-centred Design Guide)

“Super helpful tools for designers… I’ll be sharing them with the students.”

Get the book
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Lifecentred.design aims to be low carbon, inclusive, and regenerative

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Energy used by the web hosting servers is offset by 3 times as much renewable energy returned to the grid

52 trees planted

To regenerate trees used to make my books, I donate a percentage of sales from lifecentred.design and futurescouting.com.au to onetreeplanted.org

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Sustainable web strategies are used to reduce page load emissions. Current industry standard is 0.5g/page view—all lifecentred.design pages are 0.26 or under

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