Life-centered design:
Designing beyond the user

Life-centered design:
Designing beyond the user

Life-centered design:
Designing beyond the user

For years, design has been centred on the user.Understanding their needs, optimising their experience, and improving their interaction with products and services has been — and still is — essential.

But in an increasingly complex world, this approach is no longer enough.

Design decisions do not only affect the people who use a service, but also:

  • The organisations that sustain it

  • The systems in which it operates

  • The social and environmental context in which it exists

Life-Centered Design emerges as a necessary evolution: a way of designing that broadens the focus and considers the impact of solutions on the system as a whole.

The experience of the majors in an independent consultancy firm

We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

Going beyond optimising the experience of use

Considering the impact of decisions on the system

Understanding the relationships between people, organisations, and context

We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

The experience of the majors in an independent consultancy firm

We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

Improving the conversion of a service without considering its impact on operations

Designing efficient experiences that generate negative effects for other actors

Prioritising ease of use without taking long-term consequences into account

We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

  • We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

  • We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

The experience of the majors in an independent consultancy firm

We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

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Systems are complex and interconnected

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Decisions have effects at multiple levels

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Sustainability (social, economic, and environmental) is key

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Trust is built over time

We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

What designing from a Life-Centered Design perspective involves

Applying this approach is not an extra layer, but a shift in perspective.

It means:

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Broadening the focus

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Understanding consequences

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Connecting experience and system

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Designing with responsibility

The experience of the majors in an independent consultancy firm

We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

Research to understand the full system

Strategic definition to make decisions with context

Solution design aligned with operational reality

We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

Avoid superficial solutions

Design with greater coherence

Generate real impact for organisations and people

All our projects result in a feasible and useful proposal

The experience of the majors in an independent consultancy firm

We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

It connects strategy and execution

It integrates experience and operations

It incorporates impact and sustainability

It enables better-informed decisions

We design solutions to connect with your audiences in a relevant and meaningful way. We build personalized and useful strategies that drive business objectives.

Frequently asked questions

How is Life-Centered Design different from Human-Centered Design?

Is it compatible with existing design methodologies?

When does it make sense to apply this approach?

Is it a theoretical or a practical approach?

All our projects result in a feasible and useful proposal