Project Overview
Design Futuring
via Santhosh Gandhi
via Jorn Buhring
Design futuring is a future-oriented approach to long-term strategic advising. Through researching emerging trends and driving factors, designers build representations of possible future scenarios and strategize to help products, services, processes, and organizations avoid future disruptions (via Santhosh Gandhi).
Research
Trends & Drivers (trend mapping)
Forecasts (future matrix)
Trends:
➔ Consolidation of news, entertainment, and communication into singular platform(s)
◆ Development of decentralized social networking platforms (counter trend)
➔ Workers (tech, journalism, politics) splintering off of mainstream to work on smaller/local projects
➔ Dependency on mobile devices as sole accessible method of communication and information sharing
➔ Consolidation of news, entertainment, and communication into singular platform(s)
◆ Development of decentralized social networking platforms (counter trend)
➔ Workers (tech, journalism, politics) splintering off of mainstream to work on smaller/local projects
➔ Dependency on mobile devices as sole accessible method of communication and information sharing
Resulting Scenario
User Persona
User Flow
How It Works
Live & Secondary Reporting
Onboarding
Moderation