Design has never been the sole prerogative of us 'designers' who have come to be associated with it at least since the time when 'modernism' started gaining traction.
Engineers design, as do managers. Management organizations are designed as are engineering solutions of all kinds.
The different approaches can be seen in the centricity. Engineers may look at this as technology centric, managers may look at it as activity and organization centric. Other professions would have other kinds of focus. They are all creative problem discovery and solving.
We designers are 'human centric' which is why we are concerned with human values, ergonomics, aesthetics, likes, dislikes, preferences. For us, obviously, technology, organization etc will be in the service of human values, needs, desires, sensibilities.
My colleagues in Engineering design and build wonderful things and what I bring to the table are approaches that make complex engineering solutions intuitively accessible to a 5 year old, a person of special needs or indeed our illiterate companions.
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