Democratization, Industrialization and Augmentation: Where Creativity and Design Craft is Going Next

Emerging tools and toolkits are pushing established design professionals into a new —industrialized era— of systems and product design. This is happening as other tools are allowing a growing number of non-professionals to enter the industry, through highly accessible features that help augment human skill and creativity. As designers are starting to take the first steps in co-creating design artefacts alongside AI-driven systems and engines; a new world of opportunity opens up for the expert, and for the novice. The time is now.