According to the authors, the role that design plays in the world today is that everything is a design, it’s in our everyday lives. “The designer of today re-establishes the long lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.” (Bruno Munari) What distinguishes the fields of design from other creative occupations is the different ways they do their work. For example, “The designer works in a vast sector of human activity: there is visual design, industrial design, graphic design and research design.” (Bruno Munari) This shows that there are many different fields in the design world that have their own job in their names. Designers should concern themselves with unsolvable theoretical questions because it requires a lot of thinking and thinking can lead to great ideas. Unsolvable questions help the brain to create answers.

The role technology plays today in shaping design professions is that technology has made it easier. Designers are able to communicate and connect to each other easily with social media. For example, “Creating design theory is about building one’s own community, constructing a social network that questions and illuminates everyday practice—making it visible.”(Helen Armstrong)  Technology plays an important role today, everywhere you go, there will always be some type of technology near you. 

Some of the most urgent problems designers face today is keeping up with market demands. For example, “The designer is therefore the artist of the day, because he has the ability to respond to whatever demand is made of him by the society in which he lives” (Bruno Munari) There are always new trends being created and many different design styles that will be needed to create them. It is a designer’s responsibility to solve these problems because it is part of their job as designers. To create for others you must be able to keep up with them.