Design has unpredictably changed over time. What worked before might just be a different case today. A hundred years ago design was based on an artistic foundation that searched the meaning of client satisfaction and subjectivity through art and beauty. However, with the initiation of artists from the Bauhaus and Swiss schools, the design evolved into functionality and effectiveness rather than beauty which lead to a role change. Design is distinguishable from other fields for its profession and organization in the details and functionality to make life easier, happier and understandable.
It is not the case anymore for a designer to follow their own artistic instinct in a utopian creative road, but the reasoning to analyze and produce potential solutions to social problems with communication and utility with enhanced human interface. This means that designers have the responsibility to give the unsolvable theoretical questions a viable solution remarking its importance. At least technology has made this easier, by allowing designers to have a higher presence and exposure. Either they design for themselves or for enterprises, the impact is higher, easier and faster to produce. This also affects the way designers interact with each other leading to higher consciousness and creativity with the facility of sharing thoughts and ideas.
Although designers now have these amazing tools to get the task done successfully, the mist of the unknowledgeable still remains for many of us. Unrecognition is one of the problems that designers face especially with access to the internet where anything can be copied or stolen. It’s a designer’s problem and a designer’s responsibility to find a way to make this bearable. We have found our answer by standing together in our own community that critiques and motivate each other but also finds solutions.
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