What is the difference between a concept designer and a futurist?
What is the difference between a concept designer and a futurist?
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What is the difference between a concept designer and a futurist?
Is it how the user perceives it? is it in the
aesthetics? is it technological/manufacturing advancements?
Answer :
Answer :
- A futurist takes into account factors such as social trends, psychology, climate, terrain, politics, transportation and food supplies, as well as cultural distinctions, mixes in a healthy dose of hard science, and makes very accurate guesses about what is most likely to happen.
- A concept designer takes an idea, often written by someone else, and makes a model or a painting or a print of what that idea can look and act like. We’re the people who design the armor a movie character wears, the look of a starship, the way spacesuits are shaped, the shape and feel of the tools for working on Mars.
So, it’s akin to a visionary architect vs. a very
clever contractor.
concept designers are focused on a tangible output,
generally using their direct expertise. I usually find they are subject matter
experts with design experience.
A Futurist, on the other hand, is more of a
facilitator who works with people to create an outcome some time in the future.
Futurists aren’t necessarily a subject matter expert on anything except how to
use Strategic Foresight techniques to facilitate consensus of the most likely
and desired outcomes from other people who are subject matter experts.
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