Nathan Shedroff & Gayle DeBruyn
IxDD 2020: North America
“It’s not enough for designers of any kind to learn their crafts well. Successful and ethical interaction design has always required a more system outlook on organizations, societies, communities, and users. Our past successes and failures mostly hinged on how systemic our investigation of the stakeholders and context around the challenges we were given.The future must be more collaborative and systemic and we can build a culture of this through tools and processes from the world of sustainability. In particular, moving beyond screens and other design elements, circular economies offer us a lens that reframes our priorities and perspectives and how our work impacts multiple stakeholders and the Planet, itself.This talk will describe lessons learned from seven years of the Wege Prize, an international, circular economy design competition that requires designers to apply these new tools to their work. It points to a successful future for all design that is being explored and enacted today.”
