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.
I asked Perplexity to convert this into a poem, this is what it came up with:
Design’s not just for designers alone,
Since modernism’s seed was sown.
Engineers craft with tech as their guide,
Managers shape the flow inside.
Each with a lens distinct, unique,
Technology, tasks, or people they seek.
Design’s a dance of mind and heart,
Creative problem-solving, a collective art.
But we, the designers, hold a sacred trust,
Human-centered values, fairness, and just.
Ergonomics, aesthetics, what people feel,
Bringing simple clarity to complex zeal.
From children’s wonder to needs unseen,
Special friends and those in between,
We make solutions clear and bright,
Making the complex feel just right.
Thus we bridge the worlds apart,
With empathy etched in every part.
Design’s a language, broad and wide,
Where engineers and hearts collide.
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