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Design skills learned by non-designers to improve their lives
| Resumo: | In this article, the design competencies transferable to Non-Designers (N-D) are deepened. With this in view, we analyze the process of acquisition of these tools and its impacts on N-D. The article starts with the description of our vision on design. This contextualization is important to identify the main competencies that designers must have. The study on which skills to select was based on authors who have a practical perspective of design, or observation of its praxis in common. The literature review allowed us to establish a set of fourteen skills, as well as hierarchize them: Empathy, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Communication, Problem Solving, Openness, Experimentalism, Humility, Leadership, Innovation, Facilitation, Flexibility, Divergency vs. Convergency and Optimism. The fundamental idea of this paper is to ask N-Ds, with experience working in co-design teams, about their evolution in the face of these skills, before and after being exposed to the practice of design. In order not to give rise to different interpretations on the meaning of each of these areas of knowledge/competencies, a description was prepared followed by the relevance these competencies have for the subject of design. The results of the surveys and interviews allow us to perceive that, when exposed to design experiences, N-D are effectively able to assimilate competence in a very significant way, and, allowed us to perceive the importance of soft skills in co-design teams, namely, in what concerns its integration. In conclusion, we highlight the potential that these design tools may have for N-D. |
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| Autores principais: | Vasconcelos, Ana Thudichum |
| Assunto: | Competências em design Soft Skills Design para Não-Designers Processos de Design |
| Ano: | 2023 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | documento de conferência |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | In this article, the design competencies transferable to Non-Designers (N-D) are deepened. With this in view, we analyze the process of acquisition of these tools and its impacts on N-D. The article starts with the description of our vision on design. This contextualization is important to identify the main competencies that designers must have. The study on which skills to select was based on authors who have a practical perspective of design, or observation of its praxis in common. The literature review allowed us to establish a set of fourteen skills, as well as hierarchize them: Empathy, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Communication, Problem Solving, Openness, Experimentalism, Humility, Leadership, Innovation, Facilitation, Flexibility, Divergency vs. Convergency and Optimism. The fundamental idea of this paper is to ask N-Ds, with experience working in co-design teams, about their evolution in the face of these skills, before and after being exposed to the practice of design. In order not to give rise to different interpretations on the meaning of each of these areas of knowledge/competencies, a description was prepared followed by the relevance these competencies have for the subject of design. The results of the surveys and interviews allow us to perceive that, when exposed to design experiences, N-D are effectively able to assimilate competence in a very significant way, and, allowed us to perceive the importance of soft skills in co-design teams, namely, in what concerns its integration. In conclusion, we highlight the potential that these design tools may have for N-D. |
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