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Lasse Leponiemi

Chairman, The HundrED Foundation
first.last@hundred.org

Design Your Future – Cards for Future Jobs&Skills

place Spain

A card-based game to explore future jobs, skills and purpose through play

Design Your Future is an educational card game that helps young people understand how jobs are changing and how new professions emerge. Players combine roles, technologies, sectors and skills to create future jobs, moving beyond traditional careers toward flexible professional identities. The game turns career guidance into an active, screen-free learning experience.

Overview

Information on this page is provided by the innovator and has not been evaluated by HundrED.

Updated January 2026
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2026

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We hope families, young people, teachers and counselors broaden their perspective and recognize that the future of work is already here. Education should help learners understand roles, skills and technologies early, and use them to maximize opportunities. At the same time, we want young people to rediscover meaningful, affordable, screen-free learning through play.

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

Design Your Future was created in response to a growing gap between education systems and the reality of the labour market. Young people are asked to choose academic paths based on outdated job categories, while real professional opportunities increasingly emerge from the combination of roles, skills, technologies and sectors. This creates confusion, anxiety and inequality, especially for students without access to advanced career guidance.

We also identified a second challenge: most career education today relies on screens, tests and abstract explanations, despite young people already spending most of their day in digital environments. We wanted to design a deliberately screen-free, analog experience that makes complex ideas tangible, social and intuitive.

The game is deeply pedagogical by design. Through play, participants discover what future professional roles are, how technologies cut across all types of jobs, and why skills are the true currency of employability. In the game, skills function as the core resource players must manage, reinforcing the idea that abilities, not job titles, generate value. Players internalize these concepts naturally, without feeling they are being taught.

Design Your Future was created to democratize access to future-oriented career education, reduce bias, and help young people understand that their professional identity is not a fixed destination, but a dynamic combination they can actively design.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

In practice, Design Your Future is played in small groups of young people sitting around a table. The game is fully intuitive and does not require a teacher or facilitator: players start playing immediately, learning the rules as they go. Through simple mechanics inspired by modern board games, participants make meaningful decisions, take risks and adapt their strategies.

Using a deck of physical cards representing roles, skills, technologies and sectors, players combine elements to create future jobs and explain what those roles do and why they matter. The game is fun from the first round, but also deeply educational: without noticing, players internalize key concepts such as professional roles, employability, adaptability and the logic behind how future jobs are created.

A typical session lasts between 45 and 90 minutes and works equally well in classrooms, workshops or family settings. Learning emerges naturally through play, conversation and storytelling, turning career education into an engaging, social and memorable experience.

How has it been spreading?

Design Your Future has just completed its first production run and is now entering its initial distribution phase. The game is being launched through major online marketplaces, starting with Amazon and specialized education platforms, to ensure broad and accessible reach.

Our first target audiences are families and individual learners, allowing the game to spread organically through direct use and word of mouth. In parallel, we are beginning to introduce Design Your Future to schools and educational institutions as a complementary resource for career guidance, tutoring and future skills education.

The project builds on the broader ecosystem of Singularity Experts, which has already supported thousands of young people in understanding the future of work. We see HundrED as a key platform to amplify this next stage of impact, helping the game reach educators, institutions and families worldwide and accelerating its adoption as a practical tool for future-oriented learning.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

To try Design Your Future, visit the Singularity Experts website and reserve a copy from the first production run. The game is currently being rolled out, and early reservations ensure access to the initial edition as it becomes available.

https://singularity-experts.com/es/baraja

Once received, the game can be played immediately with no prior training or facilitation required. It is designed to be used in family settings, schools or workshops straight out of the box.

This reservation phase allows us to validate demand, gather early feedback and prepare the next stages of distribution and educational partnerships.

Implementation steps

Get the game
Visit the Singularity Experts website and reserve a copy of Design Your Future from the first production run.
Set the table
Follow the simple rules included in the box and begin playing immediately. The game is intuitive and engaging from the first round.
Create future jobs
Combine roles, skills, technologies and sectors to design future jobs and explain them aloud to the group.
Learn through play
As the game progresses, players make decisions, interact and tell stories. Learning emerges naturally through play, conversation and reflection.