Why Everyone is a Designer
When reading the word “design”, do you think of an inaccessible artistic endeavour?
I grew up thinking that designers lived in an ivory tower. This is a tower that was only accessible to people to people with innate skills. These preconceptions are wrong.
Everyone is capable of being a sound designer; let me tell you why.
We think of design in the wrong way.
There is a misunderstanding of what being a designer is.
People think design only describes an artistic activity. There is more to it: design is a human-centred activity, and everyone has the potential to be a designer. It helps to think that a designer is an individual who plans the form or structure of something before it is made by preparing drawings or plans.
When you start thinking of design and designer in this new light, it’s easier to feel included in this broad umbrella term.
Keep the user in mind.
You are involved in a design activity whenever you try to solve a problem and think of how people are associated with your situation.
The British Design council proposed the Double Diamond as a model to describe the design process. What is significant about this model is that it puts humans first. The first divergence/convergence of this process helps you understand the user and the people affected by your solution.
Understanding what people need and how to come up with a solution is an art.
It is important to remember that we are all designers, and design is simply a form of problem-solving producing a solution which keeps the stakeholder in mind.
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