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24 alternatives to Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

How can design inspire us to think about our future?

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Design, Form, and Chaos▲80

   A great source of design inspiration

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Discussing Design▲68

   Improving communication and collaboration through critique

   2016 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Inventology▲72

   How we dream up things that change the world

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Making Ideas Happen▲75

   Overcoming the obstacles between vision and reality

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design▲55

   Does the universe embody beautiful ideas?

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Designing Interactions▲91

   Interviews with influential designers

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   The Design of Future Things▲60

   A revealing examination of smart technology

   2015 · jnd.org · its alternatives →

8. 8
   The Design of Everyday Things▲165

   Good, usable design is possible

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Designing the Invisible▲69

   Create great web experiences

   2015 · fivesimplesteps.com · its alternatives →

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    Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World▲56

    Investigation of key ideas that have shaped our urban spaces

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind ▲65

    A glimpse inside the minds of highly creative people

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Creative Mornings - Design is Capitalism▲56

    A conversation on the role of designers in our society

    2015 · creativemornings.com · its alternatives →

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    Designspiration▲135

    Discover and share design inspiration

    2014 · designspiration.com · its alternatives →

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    Kern and Burn: Conversations With Design Entrepreneurs▲83

    Candid conversations with 30 leading designers

    2015 · kernandburn.com · its alternatives →

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    The Design of Influence: How to Craft Products that Move People▲93

    Use social psychology to design engaging digital experiences

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design ▲70

    A look at how games make us feel

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Frame Innovation▲63

    Create New Thinking by Design

    2016 · mitpress.mit.edu · its alternatives →

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    Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed▲72

    Strike a Balance Between Aesthetics and Speed in Web Design

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Envisioning Information▲87

    A remarkable range of examples of visual thinkinking

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Da Vinci Curse▲74

    Life Design for People With Too Many Interests and Talents

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Happy City▲65

    Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Competing for the Future▲54

    The art of planning for the future

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects▲60

    Conceptual products & alternate narratives of gadget culture

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Design for Humanity▲74

    The past, present, and future of anthropomorphic design

    2016 · its alternatives →

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