Tagging: Futures

1. Cennydd Bowles on Prototyping the Future, Ethics in Design, and Lessons from Chess

   In this episode of the UX Fika podcast, I talk to Cennydd Bowles, technology ethicist, author of Future Ethics, and recently a Fulbright Scholar. Cennydd advises companies like Google, Mozilla, and the BBC on how to build more responsible, ethical, and inclusive technologies – and in this conversation, which just like the rest of season 1 is from 2021, we unpack how and why that work is more urgent than ever.

2. What Is Design Fiction?

   A concise and effective video introduction to design fiction from the folks at Near Future Laboratory.

   In simple terms, design fiction is like archeology for the future.

   Design fiction isn’t focused on the movie star. It’s interested in the production design in the corner of the frame. Design fiction isn’t obsessed with the latest glossy device. He wants to know what’s written in the little Terms and Conditions slip.

   So that’s design fiction, the practice of creating tangible and evocative prototypes from possible near futures to help discover and represent the consequences of decision making.

3. How To Describe A Job To Be Done

   This podcast episode helped me recognise what I find interesting about the JTBD framework. Alan Klements’s concept of progress taps into futures thinking which I hadn’t appreciated before now.

4. Ed Conway - The hypocrisy of consumer capitalism

   A terrific discussion about the complexity and fragility of our global systems.

   there's a subtext to the book it is how can we begin to understand the world that we want to inhabit in the future if we don't understand the world we inhabit right now and our understanding of the world right now