Cutting Cubes Out of Fog: The Whole View of Design

See Change: Overcoming Anti-Black Racism in Health Systems

“…Recognizing that today's complex and ambiguous challenges require more than incremental steps to existing structures and cannot be adequately addressed by existing practices, several organizations are adopting design as a complementary approach to move forward in the face of uncertainty. Over the last 25 years, the field has seen the emergence of two unique specialties that have embraced more holistic approaches to problem-solving: “human-centered design” and “strategic design” ( 10 ). Human-centered design (HCD) incorporates considerations of end-users, prioritizing the understanding of people's activities and aspirations to ensure solutions are effectively improving their experiences.…”

“…Nevertheless, organizations from across industries have used design competencies to observe and directly interact with people in their daily life to increase empathy and gain a better understanding of their aspirations and related problems; use participatory approaches to co-create early-stage prototypes that help participants discover new opportunities for value creation across all stakeholders involved in their processes; apply abductive reasoning, complementary to deductive and inductive, that ensures exploration of the future rather than benchmarking the past; and visualize ideas in the forms of sketches and diagrams to make abstract concepts easier for all participants to understand different viewpoints; among other things that enable organizations to frame problems and expand options for making people's lives better ( 10 , 11 ).…”

“…Through schematic visualizations and techniques of progressive disclosure, we situate disease governance, course, and burden as action spaces within the structure of the Whole View ( 10 ), a design model that integrates viewpoints of organizational strategies, operations, offerings, and people's aspirations and related problems, and supports an action-oriented discussion in each of these spaces. We utilize insights from this analysis to recommend that the field of public health moves forward, considering more holistic, solution-oriented questions that embrace systemic complexity with people-centered perspectives when seeking to improve health outcomes for all.…”

Microbiology Meets the Fashion World: A Paradigm Shift in Design Education and Practice Through Biotechnology

“…As László Moholy-Nagy did in Chicago in 1937, design must push forward its links with other fields and not only work side by side with industrialists (Malherek, 2018). Once failed, the interest for the cooperative effort of social and natural sciences must be tried once again (Findeli, 1990), for a truly and comprehensive societal transformation (Whitney and Nogueira, 2020). Therefore, the recommendation for design students must be to search how things ought to be and not be conformed to how things currently are (Simon, 1969).…”

“…It may seem obvious, but the speed of change unveils a challenging question for the current design paradigm, which is the inability of approaches developed in the 20 th century to solve 21 th century challenges. This results into the hurdle of constantly defining content and methodologies for every project (Whitney and Nogueira, 2020). The hurdles are seen in design practice but also in design educational institutes and the crisis constitutes a problem of context and vision for the design field itself.…”