{"id":744,"date":"2015-11-02T18:08:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T23:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccsmfa.wordpress.com\/?p=744"},"modified":"2021-01-18T18:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T23:59:43","slug":"what-will-21st-century-designers-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/2015\/11\/what-will-21st-century-designers-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What Will 21st-Century Designers Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given vast changes in society and technology in the past\u00a050 years, what will designers do differently today?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Digital revolutions and consumer technology have had huge impact for industrial designers, product designers, even graphic designers&#8230; And then there&#8217;s all the new stuff for &#8220;interaction designers&#8221;\u2014who might have one or more of the job roles shown in the diagram above, when working collaboratively with their design team.<\/p>\n<p>How can designers of all kinds be prepared to work effectively in the 21st century?<\/p>\n<p>I believe that 21st-century designers need a set of literacies, which means the ability to &#8220;read&#8221; (understand) and &#8220;write&#8221; (create and evolve), in these areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Systems<\/li>\n<li>Collaboration (the practice of co-designing)<\/li>\n<li>Internet of Things (all things tech)<\/li>\n<li>Coding (software logic and representations)<\/li>\n<li>Frameworks for Interaction &amp; Conversation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There should also be components of 21st-century Economics and Social Equality.<\/p>\n<p>At the invitation of Nathan Felde, Chair of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/camd\/artdesign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art + Design at Northeastern University<\/a>, I spoke to a gathering of graduate and undergraduate design students. <a href=\"http:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-content\/uploads\/pangaro-ixd21stcent-neu-october-2015-distro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for the presentation slides<\/a> that tell the story of the literacies and their rationale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given vast changes in society and technology in the past\u00a050 years, what will designers do differently today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,6,9],"tags":[62,64,91],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybernetics","category-interaction-design","category-pangaro","tag-design","tag-design-literacy","tag-interaction-design-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-content\/uploads\/ccs_02_ixd_jobtypes_blog-crop-1.jpg?fit=2111%2C1138&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paKWzH-c0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3038,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/3038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}