Everyone can participate in design, but professional designers show their value as expert facilitators who drive the design process.
Published in · 5 min read · Jul 8, 2019
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If we take design in its most basic form to mean “decide on the look and functioning of something with a specific purpose or objective in mind”, then everyone is a designer. We all manipulate our environments to serve our needs. We design our meals, our wardrobes, and how we want to be perceived. We design our schedules and our routes to work; our lives and careers. Everything we deliberately plan or arrange can be said to have been designed. Everyone is a designer in that sense.
But everyone is a designer has become a misused platitude in the UX/UI design world to mean that everyone can be a digital product designer. If designers finally have a seat at the business table, they have to accept that everyone else at the table now has a seat in their design process.
To some extent, that’s true. Involving more stakeholders from a wide range of backgrounds can be…
