UXHI Oct 2024

Designing from an Emerging Future

Technologists and designers empathize, sense systems, and manage people to create solutions that solve complex challenges with elegant experiences. To do our work well, we need to enhance three superpowers: our powers to Observe, empathize with people, and sense systems; Reflect, make sense and meaning; and Act, play, prototype, and create while letting go of outcomes and assumptions.

Today's workshop explores two simple practices we can integrate into our designer or problem-solver toolkits to help us better observe, reflect, and act. First, we explore generative listening. This listening style goes beyond empathetic dialogue and taps into the emerging future as it arises, helping us become better observers and reflective empathizers. Second, we practice 3-D modeling of a problem or challenge to help us develop our reflective capabilities and willingness to act and prototype our insights while letting go of attachments.

Get ready to interact and experiment. With all materials provided, this brief hands-on workshop lets us sample and experiment with generative listening and conversation to design for an emerging future.

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