Creative professionals of the new economy must be highly skilled in emotional intelligence and practices of empathy in order to ‘design with’ instead of ‘designing for’.
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"We are designing, creating and living on the edge of consequence. With large scale forces like globalization, resource scarcity, and a pending climate collapse abound, anything someone creates — whether it be a product, a service, a policy — has a ripple effect far beyond its initial intended touchpoint. Designers need to be keenly aware of that impact and act as the ultimate system thinkers to address potential negative outcomes. Taking a queue from Meadows, designers should always be visualizing the artefacts they create in systems maps and asking themselves what kind of stock they’re feeding and how they are or aren’t supporting feedback loops. Of course, to affect the most change, they should be looking at ways in which they can transcend systems paradigms."
Article: Designing on the Edge of Consequence