👋 Hi, I’m Ben. I created Future People Lab.

FPL is a behavior change design studio that makes artifacts: small, purpose-built tools for tomorrow’s people.

Every artifact is Designed with Purpose™ through…

❤︎ Public health research - so it solves real problems, safely
⎌ Behavior change research - so it actually works
☻ User experience research - so it’s usable and desirable

The first artifact is Disagree Differently. I chose it because nothing else is getting solved until we learn to disagree better. And because I want my own friends and family to raise concerns with me about future artifacts if they need to. Without healthy disagreement, I worry we risk losing our communities.

I hope instead to grow ours. You can jump in by voting on which societal problem I tackle next, or by volunteering as a research participant. Every artifact is born from participant perspectives and expressed wishes, not KPIs.

Most companies skip this research to move fast and chase quarterly profit. That’s how we get what we youths call enshittification. I aim to stay independent through small monthly tips and direct sales.

That means if y’all don’t want these tools, I won’t make them. If you do, I’ll keep designing artifacts with purpose.

Cheers,
Ben