Idea in Brief
The Change
Increasingly, corporations and professional services firms are working to create design-centric cultures.
The Reason
Many products, services, and processes are now technologically complex. People are not hardwired to deal well with high levels of complexity. They need help.
The Idea
People need their interactions with technologies and other complex systems to be intuitive and pleasurable. Empathy, experimentation, design smarts, and other qualities help create those kinds of interactions. Those qualities need to spread from the product design function to the whole organization.
There’s a shift under way in large organizations, one that puts design much closer to the center of the enterprise. But the shift isn’t about aesthetics. It’s about applying the principles of design to the way people work.