Abstract
The Editorial Board consists of distinguished scholars and experts from around the world with interdisciplinary expertise, spanning computer science, artificial intelligence, material science, mechanical engineering, biology, neuroscience, ecology, management science, psychology, art management, cultural studies, and design science, among others. Such a diverse academic structure ensures the journal’s high academic standards and forward-looking vision, while providing a rigorous, inclusive, and open platform for the review and exchange of interdisciplinary research, promoting integration and innovation across disciplines.
DAH EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
GDUT DIRECTOR OF THE JOURNAL CENTER
DAH EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS
Designing for augmented humanity, in the next decade, means re-imagining how humans and artificial intelligence collaborate, co-create, and co-evolve!
Humanity needs to be augmented by design beyond technology.
DAH should be rooted in “Design of Humanities, History, and Philosophy” to imagine the future through Futures Thinking. As humans and AI co-evolve, designers must act as ‘Translators between Intelligence and Humanity’—bridging AI, humanity, and nature to drive sustainable innovation through collective intelligence.
To design is to bridge the vast expanse between what is and what could be.
Augmented Humanity is a cross-disciplinary pursuit that centers human dignity and agency, aligning technology with inherent human needs to amplify potential while nurturing well-being and distinct, meaningful human qualities.
Design is a process of integrating soul, creativity and technology to effect positive impacts on society and add value to human experiences.
Design is for no redesign. That is, by applying a strategic plan with enthusiasm and expertise, we ensure the problem will not recur.
To meet mental needs is the core of design.
Augmented Humanity calls for design on what should be rather than what could be.
Humanity design seeks to align technological development with the psychological and moral dimensions of humanity, an approach that is crucial to the promotion of overall human well-being and the realization of social values.
Design is to learn from systemic experiences with respect to some class of human-centered tasks, where its value in enhancing human capabilities, as measured by performance evolution, improves with accumulated experiences.
Design stands as humanity’s echo in the world, called to protect and enrich the human spirit in the future.
Design for Augmented Humanity foregrounds the reciprocal shaping of human mental processes and intelligent technologies, positioning design as a mediating force that supports meaning construction and sustained well-being in complex socio-technical environments.
Design for Augmented Humanity moves beyond efficiency to embrace emotion, and beyond transactions to imagine plural possibilities. It unlocks new horizons by amplifying the promise of Human-Centered Design and Systems Thinking.
Humanity Design is the intentional architecture of choice and interaction that acknowledges not just human strengths, but our innate cognitive biases, emotional fragilities, and the existential pursuit of meaning —designing for the human condition itself.
An Ethically Grounded Vision ... Augmentation should therefore be understood as the expansion of physical, intellectual, and affective capacities while cultivating empathy, responsibility, and prudent judgment so that technological advancement truly serves human dignity and the common good....
With the emergence of AI models that exhibit human-like cognitive abilities, the concept of augmented design is redefining the practice. It is no longer about multi-dimensional optimization, but rather about orchestrating a collaborative ecology between human and machine cognition.
Starting from “human needs”, it revolves around the deep integration of “technical tools and human functions” to form a ‘1 + 1>2’ fusion system.
Augmented humanity is not one-dimensional enhancement. It does not prescribe a final destination, but guides us to continually ask: what does it mean to become more fully human?
Augmented Humanity is the systematic realization of the comprehensive potential derived from the triad of human meta-capacities: Biophysics, Intellect, and Xin(心).
As we enter a more automated future, every advance in human capability will ineluctably trace its origins to design.
AI shall not only pursue efficiency and intelligence but also align with human morality, emotions, and diverse needs, while upholding human subjectivity and rights.
Good design is invisible. Design for augmented humanity weaves technology into the fabric of human experience, creating a seamless digital-physical symbiosis.
“All new technologies have their proper place. All new technologies will take a while for us to figure out the best manner of interaction as well as the standardization that removes one source of potential confusion.” (Don Norman, 2013)
Artificial intelligence is transforming creative and design practices from tools of execution into partners of imagination. Designing for augmented humanity means enabling a symbiosis where human intuition and machine intelligence co-evolve.
Design should be centered around “humanity”, and emotional resonance elements should be incorporated during the design process. The purpose of design is not only efficiency and functionality, but also the satisfaction of human emotions and the enrichment of the spirit.
“Design for Augmented Humanity” reframes human experience through technologically mediated extension. It rejects tool-based notions of technology and instead highlights how intelligent systems reshape cognitive, emotional, and ethical structures.
May design, in its quest to augment humanity, become the deliberate art of questioning augmentation itself—a philosophical praxis that reimagines not merely what humans can do, but what we ought to become.
“Design” as a medium, integrating the multidimensional relationships among “body, technology, action, cognition, environment, culture, and society”, serves the social progress with humanistic care and sustainability.
