Future thinking and speculation practices can be seen as a crucial premise to approach solving a problem in an innovative way. It is particularly profitable at circumstances in which challenges are complex, vague, and ambiguous. Future thinking incorporates two particular approaches: diverging and converging. It requires both a flexible way of understanding, to come with different thoughts, and know-how to make responsible decisions. This paper reviews the literature crossing Strategic Foresight and Design disciplines with the accentuation put on how innovation design
students, educators and design practitioners may engage with the future to investigate the challenges to decision-making they highlight. Combining Foresight and Design, as part of Strategic Planning processes, can help the emergence of new and more creative possibilities and conceivable outcomes, cultivate the incorporation and arrangement of diverse stakeholders, and provide for continuous learning through prototyping and experimentation by utilizing design tools and approaches to attain more profound knowledge and arrangement around current reality. A framework was presented to integrate speculation and strategic foresight approaches in design education highlighting the significance of the strategic foresight Design approach and explaining the theoretical background behind creating the framework. A participatory design workshop was conducted to explain methods used to support and validate the results of the theoretical background in order to further develop the framework. This framework can be adopted in the design field in order to facilitate the process and to support practitioners’ decisions to select suitable tools.