When I was just starting out as an industrial designer, I can remember rolling my eyes when I heard some prominent designer or design agency talking about how designers were going to save the world. I thought they were a bit full of themselves (and I still do), but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t some value in what they were saying.
They didn’t have a name for it at the time, but what they were talking about is what we now refer to as design thinking. Design thinking is broad....