Discover how digital design and business can do less harm and more good through a new approach reconnecting technology with the living world.
Course details
About the course
The digital industry shapes almost everything—how we live, consume, connect, and even how we treat the planet.
But it also comes with hidden costs: growing energy use, e-waste, and social and ecological pressures.
Life-centred Design (LCD) expands the lens of traditional human-centred design to include all life—people, animals, environments, and the planetary systems that sustain them. It’s about designing digital products, systems, and businesses that regenerate more than they consume.
This short, self-paced course gives you the foundations of this emerging movement. Through practical examples, reflective activities, and hands-on tools, you’ll learn how to connect your everyday design and business decisions to the health of our shared planet.
Key learnings
Life-centred Design Fundamentals and Framework
Gain a deeper understanding of Life-centred Design through our unique framework that recognises all life (people, animals, environments).
See how it connects design and business to the Sustainable Development Goals, nurtures the circular and doughnut economies, aims to help stabilise the planetary boundaries, by reducing harm and regenerating ecosystems.
Practical levers for Sustainable UX & Regenerative Business
Combine craft and strategy to support net-positive goals.
For UX: accessibility, ethical patterns, performance, inclusive content, and behaviour-aware design that lowers energy while improving experience.
For business: partners, hosting, models, and metrics that move beyond “less bad”, aligned with sustainability and ESG goals.
Ecosystem Mapping to identify your projects’ real-world impacts on all life
Learn a core LCD capability: mapping who and what your project touches across the three life groups.
Reveal hidden dependencies and risks, surface opportunities for regeneration, and choose interventions that matter—on any project, with any team.
Personal Guidance
The Life Pixel
Print and make your own Life Pixel—a tangible mindfulness token to keep on your desk to remind you to design for all life and connect your work with the world around it.
Your Personal Growth Path
Map your personal roadmap for growth as a life-centred design professional, whether that’s reshaping your design process, influencing your team, or guiding strategy.
Coaching Call with Damien
Have a personal coaching call with Damien to refine your plan and identify your best next steps.
Included with the Plus course.
Who the course is for
Course Outline
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Welcome | A warm welcome and introduction to the course. |
| About Life-centred Design | Discover what Life-centred Design is, why it’s needed, and how it expands human-centred design to include all life—people, animals, environments, and the planet. You’ll explore the LCD Lab’s framework and create your own Life Pixel—a make-it-yourself, hands-on reminder to design with care for the whole living system. |
| About Life-centred Digital Design | Learn how the digital industry connects to the health of the planet, from data and energy to behaviour and culture. You’ll explore the two foundations of Life-centred Digital Design:
See how they come together to shift design from doing less harm to doing more good. |
| Map a Digital Ecosystem | Every project lives within a web of relationships. In this module, you’ll learn how to use Ecosystem Impact Mapping to visualise how your digital product touches people, animals, environments, and planetary systems. It’s a way to uncover unseen impacts and to spot opportunities for positive change. |
| Map Your Path | Turn awareness into action. You’ll reflect on your role, envision your next step as a life-centred professional, and create your personal LCD Path—a roadmap for growth that aligns with your influence, values, and goals. You also have the option to include a personal coaching call with Damien to refine your plan and discuss your best next steps. |
| Forge Ahead | Bring everything together. Refine your plan, celebrate what you’ve learned, and get ready to take your first steps as a life-centred designer, leader, or innovator. You’ll also receive your Certificate of Completion. |
Enrolment Options
Life-centred Digital Design Introduction
All you need to start becoming a life-centred digital innovator
$59 AUD
Life-centred Digital Design Introduction ‘Plus’
Start becoming a life-centred digital innovator + Coaching Call
‘PLUS’ ALSO INCLUDES:
$199 AUD
Meet your teacher, Damien Lutz
Founder of the Life-centred Design Lab
Author of The Life-Centred Design Guide, The Non-human Persona Guide, and Future Scouting
After over a decade in UX/UI Design & Research, Damien began scouting the fringes of design to develop ways to fully realise design as a superpower for good. He has taught life-centred design in Portugal, Italy, and Australia, and has produced three design guides, along with two online hubs, various toolkits, courses, and workshops to empower designers and decision-makers to be more sustainable, regenerative, inclusive, and future-skilled.
Join Damien to learn new ways to design a thriving existence for all life.
FAQs
The course is best for anyone with some basic design or business knowledge, but all our welcome and will be inspired.
The minimum time to complete this course properly is about 4-5 hours, but the more you put in the more you will get out of it.
You can access the course material for the period stated in the “Course Details” panel, from your purchase date, while the product is online and supported. When this period ends, access ends unless otherwise stated.
Why not lifetime access?
- Learning works best when it gets finished
- Instead of lifetime access that turns valuable courses into a to-do list that often never gets started, a defined access period gives you the motivation and flexibility to learn at your own pace, revisit key ideas, apply them in real projects, and get real value by actually upskilling rather than collecting content.
- Do you really want ‘lifetime’ access, or do you need an experience that helps you focus, learn, and gain real skills while the content is at its most current and useful?
- Tech and the world are changing fast
- Design, sustainability, technology, platforms, partnerships, and business models change over time, so a defined access period lets us keep content relevant, update or retire material responsibly, and be clear about what we can realistically support.
- Keeping outdated courses online “for life” adds to digital clutter and waste, increasing storage, energy use, carbon emissions, and water consumption in data centres for content that may no longer be relevant or valuable.
Yes, you get a certificate! Once you complete all lessons, you’ll be emailed your certificate shortly after.
Yes, we also offer customised training for creating and using non-human personas as in-house training. Contact us for more details at in**@*********ed.design.
Unfortunately, there are no discounts for courses at this price.
