Probable : financial crash, war etc

Plausible: damage control - what could happen and how could we avoid it

Possible: links between today and the future (smart glasses if they get that right how will that impact user experience)

preferable: you would live to happen -

why is speculative design important?

• encourages imagination
• challenges norms
• Shape innovation - real world innovations start as speculative concepts
• Prepare and adapt us to change

not predicting the future but creating through provoking

Traditional design vs speculative design

How to practice speculative design

• identify future concern - trends and issues
• what if questions
• create future scenarios - develop a fictional world
• design artefacts & prototypes - make products from that future (bringing an artefact back in time)