Designing for the future in the age of pandemics: a future-ready design research (FRDR) process

The recent pandemic has painfully reminded us of the need for IS design to be informed by possible futures and conscious undesirable – Within months, many nice-to-have functionalities have become must-haves; Technology solutions in response raised privacy equality concerns. Although science research fundamentally focuses on shaping artefacts events create a more desirable future, there been limited guidance how should accounted for. This article addresses gap integrating insights from future-oriented develop guidelines engaging with throughout process. future-ready (FRDR) process prompts researchers aware futures, foster innovative foresight actively pursuing preferred espouse responsible consciously avoiding futures. are illustrated project outbreak analytics instantiated system’s subsequent adaptation utilisation COVID-19.