Design Dreaming

Hillary Carey is an award-winning product designer, a trusted leadership coach, a Ph..D. in designing for long-term visions, a teacher, and justice advocate.

Praxis

Design as a tool for exploring, understanding, and change.

A paper journal that reads "Field Notes from the Future" and "NextGen 2030 Edition"

An image of a realistic looking depiction of a future Zoom interface that manages whether people feel included.

Three people are acting out a hospital check-in experience using rough props and signage,

A hand-drawn sketch of a young person telling his story on a video.

Three women are looking at a wall of handwritten notes, considering where to place their voting dots.

Publications:
I write about design, futures, and radical imagination

I argue for a new practice of design, called Social Design Dreaming, that emphasizes long-term visions as a leverage point for social change. I clarify why visions are effective by drawing on design theory and practice, futures studies perspectives and methods, and utopian and radical imagination theories.

"To be truly radical is to make hope possible
rather than despair convincing."

Raymond Williams

Three people with mountain and balloons.png

Vision-Setting

What does success look like?

My work helps people answer, on small and large scales, what does the success of your project look like. That's what visions do. Visions describe the outcomes of hard work, so that other people will come along with you toward better possibilities.

Design Dreaming

Praxis

Publications: I write about design, futures, and radical imagination

Raymond Williams

Vision-Setting

Publications:
I write about design, futures, and radical imagination