FINISH ANOTHER SENTENCE In the future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.
In the future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant. PHILIPPE STARCK 2008 opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/starck-raving
It is just the cognitive limits on the number of interactions a designer can manipulate, which make the unaided designer obsolete in the face of the large complexes of requirements he meets today. Christopher Alexander and Marvin L. Manhein, The Design of Highway Interchanges. Cambridge: Department of Civil Engineering, MIT, 1962. CHRIS ALEXANDER 1962
HIGH LOW ARTIFACTS TRANSFORMATIONS COMPLEXITY EXPERIENCES THOUGHTS ACTION THINGS SYMBOLS Logos, signs Tools, objects Interactions, services Ecosystems, platforms Buchanan, R. (2001) Design research and the new learning. Design Issues, 17(4), 3–23 The field of design is changing. Buchanan’s four orders of design (2001) demonstrates the field’s past and possible futures. Problems of Communication Problems of Construction Problems of Action Problems of Integration Participation Interaction Interface Transaction
20th century design FROM THOUGHTS ACTION THINGS SYMBOLS Logos, signs Tools, objects Interactions, services Ecosystems, platforms Simplicity of form, function, materials, and manner. Buchanan, R. (2001) Design research and the new learning. Design Issues, 17(4), 3–23 Problems of Communication Problems of Construction Problems of Action Problems of Integration
THOUGHTS ACTION THINGS SYMBOLS Logos, signs Tools, objects Interactions, services Ecosystems, platforms Problems of Communication Problems of Construction Problems of Action Problems of Integration 20th century design FROM Making the complex manageable; Rendering the complicated meaningful. Simplicity of form, function, materials, and manner. TO 21st century design Buchanan, R. (2001) Design research and the new learning. Design Issues, 17(4), 3–23
20th century design FROM Making the complex manageable; Rendering the complicated meaningful. Simplicity of form, function, materials, and manner. TO 21st century design THOUGHTS ACTION THINGS SYMBOLS Logos, signs Tools, objects Interactions, services Ecosystems, platforms Buchanan, R. (2001) Design research and the new learning. Design Issues, 17(4), 3–23 Design of systems increasingly complex < Problems of Communication Problems of Construction Problems of Action Problems of Integration
Design has evolved from the design of objects both physical and immaterial, to the design of systems, to the design of complex adaptive systems. This evolution is shifting the role of designers; they are no longer the central planner, but rather participants within the systems they exist in. JOI ITO 2017 pubpub.org/pub/designandscience
Design jobs that will die: User Experience Designer Visual Designer Design Researchers Traditional Industrial Designers Chief Design Officers Design jobs that will grow: Virtual Interaction Designer Specialist Material Designer Algorithmic/AI Designers Post-Industrial Designers Design Strategists fastcompany.com/3063318/5-design-jobs-that-wont-exist-in-the-future There may be some design jobs that “die” … 5 Design Jobs That Won’t Exist In The Future from design leaders from frog, Artefact, and IDEO