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Do designers and anthropologists use the same core skills?
There is a vast population of the global village that is either oblivious to, resisting, in conflict with, or has only partially adapted to the forces of globalization. How might we design for them?
Our capacity to do harm can outstrip our capacity to mitigate the harm. It has become clear that the need to establish “ethical foresight” practice has now become an imperative.
“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” -Betty Friedan
We must embrace a new mindset. First and foremost, we need to stop treating people as consumers or users, and instead recognize and involve them as co-creators.
Response to a question posed to me recently by an old client, “What strategic vision can you share with the UX design team of a software company dedicated to expanding its product line to hardware ?”
This morning I watched a TED talk, “The danger of a single story” by a Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, which sent an alarm bell ringing inside my head.