Sketchin
All Services

Future scenario design

Designing scenarios, product and services to test alternative futures

Sketchin - Future Scenario Design - Tablet user interface prototyping

We prototype and co-design products, services, environments, artefacts and experiences that bring to life preferable futures. Thus, organisations can empathise with them and provoke a broader, mindful and focused debate.

Making preferable futures tangible.

We use design as a lens to make futures tangible. Stimulating and anticipating change, defining scenarios, creating artefacts or concepts "from the future" to trigger thought and awareness of the direction one chooses to take and of its outcomes. We encourage the creation of an active and constant awareness of the possible forces driving us, laying foundations for the construction of shared meanings.

Through a participatory and collaborative process with all relevant stakeholders - businesses, communities, experts, end users - we shape a variety of future scenarios to exemplify different strategies, behaviours and assumptions. We prototype scenarios and visions to create debate and consensus on possible outcomes, allowing people to immerse themselves in the future, perceiving its complexities and interconnections.

We look to the future focusing on the experiences people will have, putting their well-being and the quality of their daily lives at the centre. We use design to interpret how emerging phenomena and technologies can be used to benefit people and our planet.

Sketchin Envision - Future of Banking – We have developed a viable scenario that shows the features and the banking services in 2025 by exploiting the current technology opportunities and people's behaviours.

Sketchin - Future Scenario Design - domotic technology user inteface on mobile app, iwatch, IOT

Energy & Utility Company – We have envisioned new possible experiences, through a process of reverse engineering, and starting from the new domotic technologies, conceiving non-traditional services for the energy market and considering users not as owners of a supply contract but as full users of their own home.

Sketchin - Future Scenario Design - Prototyping for a global energy company

Global energy company – Adopting a backcasting approach we envisioned the starting point for a common brand experience across different company worlds. By creating a single access point and putting into dialogue existing systems, we were able to connect existing services into integrated experiences cross country and cross company legal entities.

Sketchin - Future Scenario Design - Lugano Moves landscape from a possible future

Sketchin Envision, Lugano Moves – We envisioned a new character for mobility in the city of Lugano and the Region nearby, by interpreting the signals in society, business and technology and by using design as a leverage to exploit opportunities, showing how the 2040 Lugano could become an increasingly attractive city.

Sketchin - Future Scenario Design - ERSL co-designworkshop

ERSL - Ente Regionale per lo Sviluppo del Luganese – Everyday weak signals, news, and events reveal possible lines of change for the future. Starting from those signals, we defined the key attributes of a desirable future for the Luganese, using stories created by the citizens. Alongside the Regional Institution for the Luganese Development, we built a new vision for the territory, together with people that live and work in the region, and the officials and mayors from the Luganese cities.

Sketchin - Future Scenario Design - predictive support for a private banking app

Sketchin Envision, Fintech & Insurtech – We envisioned a more proficient experience for insurance agents and customers, enhanced by digital tools, robot advisory, and vocal interfaces. The proposed scenario shows how it is possible to create a comprehensive ecosystem to support the insurance agent on the move, as in the office.

Next Futures - Leading public IT services company

Leading public IT services company – A leading public IT services company and an Italian government office wanted to rethink their document management processes, redesigning their practices, physical and digital tools and evolving their internal archiving culture. A future-proof framework to enable a radical transformation enabled by new technologies and aimed at efficiency and standardisation.

Get in touch

Learn more about our future scenario design and what we can do for your business.