Instructional Videos

Watch and learn

Learn from instructional videos teaching you how to use the tools to research and compile insight about your non-humans and non-users to give them a voice and keep their needs in mind.

Community Space and Feedback

Share and discuss

Share your coursework, your thoughts and experiences, your experiments and findings, and get feedback from the Instructor.

Multimedia personas

Explore how to create personas using different mediums to create emotive artefacts for sharing and influencing

For digital and industrial designers, product and business owners, and strategists who want to do more good

  • Online and at your own pace

  • 10 Modules, 6 Instructional Videos, Toolkit, Community Space and Instructor feedback

  • 12 month access

Key Outcomes from this course

On completion of this course you will:

  • Know how to research facts about non-humans and non-users

  • Compile research into a persona document that is effective for informing design and business decisions

  • Create an emotive multi-media persona artefact for sharing and influencing

  • Learn tips and principles of using non-human/non-user personas and practice innovating with them

“Give us space to grow,
and we will clean the air for you”

- The Local Trees

Course curriculum

    1. Lesson introduction

    2. Welcome

    3. Lesson 1 - About the course

    4. Task 1—Introduce yourself in the community space

    1. Lesson Introduction

    2. Lesson 2—About non-humans
and non-users

    3. Task 2–Explore the persona library

    4. Helpful Resources

    5. Lesson Checklist

    1. Lesson Introduction

    2. Task 3—Prepare your workspace

    3. Miro and Mural Guides

    4. Lesson Checklist

    1. Lesson introduction

    2. Lesson 4—Prepare for your journey

    3. Task 4—Determine your subject and non-human/non-user

    4. Lesson checklist

    1. Lesson introduction

    2. Lesson 5—Immerse in their world

    3. Task 5.1—Connect with nature

    4. Task 5.2—Research the Non--human/non-user

    5. Helpful Resources

    6. Lesson checklist

    1. Lesson Introduction

    2. Lesson 6—Create a living snapshot

    3. Task 6—Create the persona

    4. Lesson checklist
  • Online, self-study, at your own pace
  • 10 Modules, 6 Instructional Videos, Toolkit, Community Space and Instructor feedback
  • 12 month access

FAQ

  • Who is this course for?

    This course is for industrial and digital designers, creative professionals, product and business owners, futurists, and anyone else who wants to learn how to take action and start conversations about positively impacting the planet and society with design.

  • How much knowledge and experience do I need?

    The course is best for anyone with some basic design or business knowledge, but all our welcome and will be inspired.

  • How much time will I need to complete the course?

    The minimum time to complete this course properly is about 5 hours. The videos total about 1 hour of viewing, time spent on the 3 key activities is recommended 1 hour each. How much time you put in is up to you, but the more you put in the more you will get out of it.

  • How long can I access the course material for?

    You can access the course material for up to 12 months after the purchase date.

  • How do we learn?

    The course teaches the key steps through tasks. You will get to choose your subject and non-human or non-user to work with. Your subject may be a design project you are working on, a website, a product, or a human-made environment like a park or a city.

  • Can I access this course from anywhere in the world?

    Yes! The course is completely online at at your own pace and time zone.

  • Can this course be offered as in-house training?

    Yes, we also offer customised training for creating and using non-human personas as in-house training. Contact us for more details at [email protected].

  • Do I get a certificate on completion of the course?

    Yes! You will be automatically sent a certificate on completion via the email in your account.

  • Do you offer scholarships?

    Yes! Lifecentred.design is committed to providing equitable access for designers around the world by offering scholarships at our own discretion. Read more here

"We want to have meaning and value,
to be used and reused many times"

— E-waste