Future Future

What is your stuff made out of? When we look at the products around us - consumer electronics, furniture, food containers - it's always that same fifteen materials. It's plastics. Glass. Aluminum. Wood.

At Nonfiction, we insist on getting more creative with materials. One of the ways we do that is by accessing a material library. Our headquarters hosts a world-class material library created by Material ConneXion, a New York City based material science company that gathers a lot of materials - and most importantly sustainable materials - from all over the world.

Our office features hundreds of materials that you can touch, smell, bend, and read about. Learn about why we have a material library, and how we use it in this latest episode of Future Future hosted by Phnam Bagley and Mardis Bagley.

Learn more about our material library here: https://www.nonfiction.design/projects/material-library

And, check out all that Material ConneXion has to offer: https://materialconnexion.com/

#materiallibrary #industrialdesign #materialscience

Credits:

Adrienne Ciuffo, Producer

Cat Ganson, Editor

Fifile Nguyen, Marketing

Good designers know how to use materials to tell brand stories. In other words, materials are a way a brand's vision, mission, and purpose can be translated to the end user.

Thanks to our in-house material library in partnership with Material ConneXion, we at Nonfiction access the latest in material science advancements to apply renewable materials and tell beautiful stories. Materials that are self-healing. Living materials. Materials that react to temperature fluctuations. Each of these have huge potential to tell strong brand stories.

This episode of Future Future, hosted by Phnam Bagley and Mardis Bagley, will share how we take cutting-edge materials and put them out in the world to inspire other industries, companies, and people to do the same.

To see some of our work up close, check out our website at https://www.nonfiction.design.

To learn more about Material ConneXion, visit https://materialconnexion.com/.

Credits:

Adrienne Ciuffo, Producer

Cat Ganson, Editor

Fifile Nguyen, Marketing

Design can help in all kinds of ways! We work with clients at all kinds of stages, from pre-seed to well-established. Sometimes, they come with an idea, or a technology, or a partially-baked design. Then, we help turn those things into market leading products.

At Nonfiction, we are trained to think ​critically from a business perspective, from a design perspective, from a user experience perspective, and all the aspects that make a product a reality. Learn some of the major ways design can help in this latest episode of Future Future, hosted by Phnam Bagley and Mardis Bagley.

Check out the projects mentioned in this episode at https://www.nonfiction.design.

Credits:

Adrienne Ciuffo, Producer

Cat Ganson, Editor

Fifile Nguyen, Marketing

Ergonomic design is about design that works for you rather than you working for it. It can help counteract fatigue caused by repeated interactions with construction equipment or even computers.

In this episode of #FutureFuture, hosts Phnam and Mardis Bagley share a short history of ergonomic design, why it's important, and how industrial designers today make the right decisions when it comes to ergonomic design.

Watch the episode, then check out some of Nonfiction's ergonomically excellent designs at https://www.nonfiction.design.

Credits:

Adrienne Ciuffo, Producer

Cat Ganson, Editor

Fifile Nguyen, Marketing

#ergonomicdesign #comfortabledesign #industrialdesign

Space has been in the news a lot lately. In 2024, we'll be going back to the Moon for the first time since the 1970s. The Moon is going to be used for mining and as a launching point for an even bigger mission to Mars.

But how can lunar miners live happily and healthily on the Moon? We've designed Color on the Moon: high-tech habitats and structures that integrate color psychology to make space more human. Listen to this latest episode of Future Future to learn more about how humans will soon become an interplanetary species.

Find out more about us at https://www.nonfiction.design.

Credits:

Mardis Bagley, Host

Phnam Bagley, Host

Adrienne Ciuffo, Producer

Cat Ganson, Editor

Fifile Nguyen, Marketing

At Nonfiction, we've crafted a series of six questions to help us make the right decisions as we design innovative products, services, and environments.

In this episode of Future Future, hosts Phnam and Mardis Bagley share what these right questions are, how they define, "good design", and invite you to try this six question methodology out for yourself.

Want to see what we've been up to at Nonfiction? Visit us at https://www.nonfiction.design​.

Credits:

Adrienne Ciuffo, Producer

Cat Ganson, Editor

Fifile Nguyen, Marketing​

We get hit up all the time by people who want us to quickly design high quality products for cheap. But realistically, they can't expect to get all three.

In this episode of Future Future, hosts Mardis and Phnam Bagley share why companies developing products can't have it all, rookie mistakes they've seen, and how we at Nonfiction help companies look at these three different factors.

Thanks for listening! If you'd like to see some of our high quality work, visit us at https://www.nonfiction.design.

Credits:

Adrienne Cuiffo, Producer

Cat Ganson, Editor

Fifile Nguyen, Marketing

Business class needs some serious updating. How can airlines transform the business class flight experience to make it more exciting and aligned with how people actually do business today?

Nonfiction has redesigned the business class experience with the goal of reinstating pleasure in flight. Networking, connections, privacy, productivity, entertainment, relaxation. We've incorporated the needs of today's business travelers. Tell your airlines to call us.

This is an episode of Future Future, a series where hosts Mardis and Phnam Bagley talk about the future of everything.

Nonfiction is an award-winning creative studio of designers, architects, strategists, and engineers. From our headquarters in San Francisco, California, we work with clients around the world to turn science fiction into reality for a better future.

Find out more about us at https://www.nonfiction.design.

Credits:

Adrienne Ciuffo, Producer

Cat Ganson, Editor

Fifile Nguyen, Marketing

Are you a leader by paycheck, or by practice?

True leadership shows through behaviors, like micromanaging (don't), delegating (do), being decisive (do), and much more.

Watch the latest episode of Future Future, where hosts Mardis and Phnam Bagley share the productive leadership attitudes and behaviors they've picked up on their journey from early career designers to creative directors at Nonfiction.

Learn more about Nonfiction at https://www.nonfiction.design.

Credits:

Adrienne Cuiffo, Producer

Cat Ganson, Editor

Fifile Nguyen, Marketing

We want to have happy personal lives, AND we want to very productive at work. What we want to do is to do less and achieve more. What if our tasks every day were propelling us towards a goal in life, instead of slowing us down?

In this newest episode of Future Future, hosts Mardis Bagley and Phnam Bagley will tell you the hyperproductive attitudes, behaviors, and habits we at Nonfiction adpot to feel personally fulfilled while doing great work, and how you can do it, too.

Get to know us and our work at https://www.nonfiction.design.

Credits:

Adrienne Ciuffo, Producer

Cat Ganson, Editor

Fifile Nguyen, Marketing