An Intro to Designing with Futures

​What kind of world are we designing for?

Things are changing. We see it every day in the autonomous cars driving through our city, the delivery robots blocking our sidewalks, and the new workplace guidelines asking us to become “AI-native.” The world looks very different from the way it did 20 years ago, 10 years ago, or even five years ago.

AI, automation, new interfaces, changing expectations, and emerging technologies are reshaping the products we interact with every day, but the experience seems to be lagging behind.

So as we enter this age of accelerating change, how might we better understand the influence changing technology, culture, business, and human behavior have on the experiences we design?

Join us on July 27 for An Intro to Designing with Futures, a guided, hands-on workshop on design fiction and worldbuilding. Through studio discussion, collaboration, and design, participants will work in small teams to imagine future contexts, creating artifacts from the worlds they build.

Created and led by Brandon Harwood, designer, strategist, and founder of quietloudlab. His work blends human-AI interaction, speculative design, and future-centered methods to help teams ask better questions.

You’ll leave with:
- Frameworks for thinking past today’s constraints
- New ways to generate ideas before opening Figma or your AI tools
- Experience using worldbuilding as part of the design process
- A future scenario and artifact created with your team
- A new lens on the designer’s evolving role

Who it’s for:
Designers, design-adjacent, and design-curious folks. All are welcome.

Hosted by Improving Plano
🍕Pizza and drinks provided