Resources
Tools, articles, perspectives, and more to inspire you 🙂
Introduction material
- About Life-centred Design ↗
- 10 design practices combine in life-centred design ↗
- 4 women who made modern design more life-centred ↗
- The First Nations roots of life-centred thinking ↗
- 6 emerging design practices we need to save tomorrow ↗—Influences on life-centred design
- My lecture ↗ for the Responsible Design for Innovation course at The University of Sydney
Presentation Videos
- Life-centred Futures ↗ —My lecture for the Responsible Design for Innovation course at The University of Sydney
- The Futures Of Design ↗ —My presentation to the awesome Woolies X Design team
Tools
- The Life-centred Compass ↗—A ‘Double Diamond’ process diagram for life-centred design
- The Life-centred Purpose Tool ↗—connecting your project to global goals
- Non-human and non-user Personas ↗—Personas to give voice to the animals and environments impacted by our projects
- An inclusive and planet-friendly digital style guide ↗—Let’s embed life-centredness into our style guides
- UX Accessibility Checklist (WCAG 2.1AA) ↗
- The Life-centred Design Guide Book Resources
Digital Design
Sustainable digital design
- Making sustainable improvements to an existing site ↗
- Life-centred design for digital designers ↗
- An inclusive and planet-friendly digital style guide ↗—Let’s embed sustainability, accessibility, and diversity into our style guides
Inclusive digital design
- An inclusive and planet-friendly digital style guide ↗—Let’s embed sustainability, accessibility, and diversity into our style guides
- UX Accessibility Checklist (WCAG 2.1AA) ↗—A ‘learn as you do’ accessibility checklist
Sustainable User behaviour
Non-human and Non-user Personas
- Non-human and non-user personas for life-centred design ↗
- Evolving animal personas as design tools with interspecies design ↗
- Experimenting with non-human personas and UX ↗
- 5 design projects using non-human personas to give nature a voice ↗
- Non-human personas and totems ↗
- Templates—Download from the Non-human and Non-user personas page
Diverse Perspectives

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