What does the future demand?
Is a designer a creator, a problem-solver, a master-builder, an inventor, a visionary, a changemaker? A specialist or a generalist?
The role of a designer is rapidly evolving, defying a fixed definition. Designers of the future must be able to take on many roles, and this will require a range of different skillsets. Design in service of future needs will also be non-static, responsive to the environment or other parameters, and adaptive to various scenarios and requirements. Single, static, specific design solutions must be replaced by prototypical, transformative design “systems.”
The new practice of design can have archetypical systems that respond to problems with solutions that are data-informed and data-driven, and parametric. This method of formulaic programming can create systems that are not just smart, but also scalable, replicable, customizable, resilient and sustainable.
