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LIFE-CENTRED DESIGN PROMPT CARDS

Discover impacts of a product lifecycle

Shuffle and flip the cards to explore who and what might be impacted by a product lifecycle

LIFE-CENTRED DESIGN PROMPT CARDS

Discover impacts of a product lifecycle

Shuffle and flip the cards to explore who and what might be impacted by a product lifecycle

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What does the supply chain look like and what effects does it have on the environments and communities it passes through? Is there high energy use or waste, hazardous air and greenhouse gas emissions, risk of oil spill, etc?

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What does the supply chain look like and what effects does it have on the environments and communities it passes through? Is there high energy use or waste, hazardous air and greenhouse gas emissions, risk of oil spill, etc?

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What’s the impact of a product’s true lifecycle?

As designers and product creators, we are not just producing new consumables for humans, we are creating new members and influencers of many ecosystems that affect many living non-humans (land, water, air, animals, insects, etc).

We are not just producing an item with a lifecycle defined by human use, but also by its sourcing, manufacturing, repair, the life of use, and breakdown.

  • Where does the life of your product start?
  • How long is it used, how is it disposed of, and how long does it take to breakdown?
  • What non-users and non-humans are affected across all stages, and how do these affected non-humans affect those they come into contact with?

Use these cards to guide the design of new products or to assess the impact of existing ones.

Shuffle and flip to use as a random challenge to the design thinking, or go through each as you map out your service design blueprint.

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Damien Lutz, author of The Non-human Persona Guide, The Life-centred Design Guide, and Future Scouting

We replenish what we use

A percentage of profits from design guides by Damien Lutz are donated to onetreeplanted.org to replace the trees used to create the books

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To regenerate trees used to make our books, we donate a percentage of printed book sales to onetreeplanted.org

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

This site's hosting is green

This website runs on green hosting - verified by thegreenwebfoundation.org
Energy used by the web hosting servers is offset by 3 times as much renewable energy returned to the grid

We're planting trees!
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To regenerate trees used to make our books, we donate a percentage of printed book sales to onetreeplanted.org

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Sustainable web strategies are used to reduce page load emissions.
The current industry standard is 0.8g/page view—all lifecentred.design pages aim to be less than the standard

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

This site's hosting is green

This website runs on green hosting - verified by thegreenwebfoundation.org
Energy used by the web hosting servers is offset by 3 times as much renewable energy returned to the grid

We're planting trees!
The number in the site's top bar shows how many we've planted

To regenerate trees used to make our books, we donate a percentage of printed book sales to onetreeplanted.org

Page CO2 emissions
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Sustainable web strategies are used to reduce page load emissions.
The current industry standard is 0.8g/page view—all lifecentred.design pages aim to be less than the standard

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I am the voice of the trees who were taken to make the product I speak from.

We, the trees, gave shade, clean air, homes for countless creatures, and the gift of oxygen for you to breathe. We cooled the earth, held the soil, and stored the carbon that would have otherwise harmed you.

Now, as a user of this product, you are part of this legacy, and a custodian of the things we once were. 

I ask you to honor the role we played for your planet. Where we are taken, help new trees rise, and protect those who still stand tall. Nurture them as they nurture you, for your future is rooted in our regeneration.

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