Future Footprint: Explore the Unexpected Future from the Existing Signals through the Prototype Inspiration

Abstract

Under the exponential growth of the computing power of artificial intelligence, the revolution of thinking that designers pursue turn to qualitative rather than quantitative. Instead of trying to capture as many signals as possible, it's judging and internalizing the signals. This paper attempts to promote a path of inspiration to explore the desirable future. By exploring and analyzing the path of designers to generate design inspiration, we propose the Prototype Inspiration tool of the future footprint and start from three dimensions of future signals, values, and personal experience. Inspire the design team to generate a quality conception of the future based on the separation, integration, and reorganization of real signals in a short time. And introduce the prototype inspiration tool with future thinking through the application and verification in the real teaching environment, which expands the dimension and depth of design ideas in the early stage of design.