Today’s designers frequently prioritize making technology edible, attractive, and simple to use. However, design can be a tool for both the creation of objects and ideas; speculating on how things may be and imagining potential futures.
Many people believe that Star Trek has always symbolized the technologies, equipment, and other amenities that the far future might have held for humanity. Each successive generation has always found inspiration and hope for the future in Hollywood, and especially in the Sci-fi universe.
A team of San Francisco-based designers whose mission statement was “We bring science fiction into reality for a better future”. Phnam and Mardis Bagley, two young designers who have opted to assist businesses in helping them create products that might create a better future for themselves and those around us, are the co-founders of the firm, which is called Nonfiction.
In actuality, their method of product design encompasses not just the intended use of the finished product but also the entire process leading up to it, its industrialization of it, and the ecosystem that affects the output. The best future will only come about if the things we build serve a transformational purpose while also being able to respect and distribute the same value along the whole production chain. The real effort starts now in terms of maximizing the components, sustainability, material selection, processing, and ease of connection between all of these factors.
The future and the world of design have a fundamental and unbreakable tie, where one influences the other, according to Phnom & Mardis. We can conclude the future concepts that are conceivable, likely, or desirable. But we should also think freely when considering the future. By figuring out what needs to change or how to think differently to improve each of our experiences.
In response to my stupid query, “So, where can I get innovation? Mardis responds that the ability to combine two elements; components or concepts that have never been combined before is the first step in the innovation process.
Innovation is sparked by the unusual or by foreign things or from the distant past.
Therefore, they continue their conversation about how to change the future in conjunction with what they do for their clients; producing a series of films on YouTube titled Future Future. In addition, Phanm is writing a book titled “Design for a Better Future.”
But Nonfiction has also created tangible projects based on their ideas, such as Edwin, a waterproof, app-connected rubber ducky made to entertain kids during bath time, relax them before naps, and calm them during the sleepy time, and Halo Sport, a neuro-stimulating wearable that uses the brain’s plasticity to improve athletic performance.
It’s obvious from their efforts that the jobs of product designers are more complex than it was in the past. Products evolve into true ecosystems of hardware, software, data, services, and much more, rather than remaining defined objects.
Phnam points out that having an open mind becomes essential specifically to deal with this complexity.
But when your own company expands, you may go from being a designer to a manager or business developer. And at that point, you will lose the ability to handle complexity.
Here is what lays the groundwork for handling complicated ideas and solutions while building a flat organization where you may continue to be a designer, collaborate, and co-create with others, with varied abilities and views.
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