Nicole Aleong

Nicole is a design anthropologist and equity-centred design practitioner working at the intersection of futures thinking, systems design, and decoloniality. Today, she is a freelance Senior Design Researcher dedicated to improving public services and promoting inclusive digital transformation in the civic tech space. 

Over the years, Nicole has worked as a consultant with the UK central government, Canadian provincial government, alongside many globally recognised tech companies, such as Amazon, Google, and Nintendo. Inspired by her research alongside creative newcomers, refugees and asylum-seekers in the Netherlands, she is dedicated to advancing ethical research practices, designing sustainable, inclusive futures, and understanding the perspectives from those historically and systematically left out of the conversation. 

Nicole holds a MSc in Cultural and Social Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam and lives in Vancouver, Canada.

UX research is inherently future-oriented. As researchers, we are often on the lookout to understand what users expect, what they anticipate to happen, and what they hope will come next. How users orient themselves towards the future is part of how they experience the present. By drawing attention to the nuances of different future orientations in everyday life, we can unlock new depths of understanding to improve product and service design. 

Join this half day workshop to learn how to apply a framework of six future orientations to your research design, analysis and synthesis, and insights delivery. Learn how to centre the future as an object of study and apply a framework from futures anthropology to advance tactical and strategic research.

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