Design Process
topic on 4 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
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Jenny Wen: The traditional research-and-diverge design process is dead
“This design process that designers have been taught where you go and you go off and you do a bunch of research and discovery, and then you like diverge, you converge, diverge, converge. And it's like this process that we sort of treated as gospel and tried so …”
Modon: High engineering costs force projects into single-pass local optima
“Because again, such a high marginal cost to engineering, what you end up doing is you only really design something one pass through. There's no sort of iteration. There's no optimization of design. And that leads you to a spot where you kind of make early deci…”
Field: Broadening design participation expands rather than diminishes designers' roles
“In a world where design is the way you win, it's only natural that we need to get more people involved in the design process. That is not going to diminish, diminish the role of designers. In fact, I think it expands the role of designers because then you have…”