The Seven Sins of Designerism

designerism

noun.
Attitude, behaviours, mindset and professional outlook associated with grumpy or cranky design practitioners.

Designerism represents everything wrong with design education and the designers of today.

Here are the seven sins of Designerism:

• Obsessed with vocabulary and jargons in moment prisons.
• Holding onto a fake sense of expertise in a poorly defined profession.
• Profession-centrism that puts oneself above all else.
• Bad reflexes to real world situations of constraints, cultures and politics.
• Lack of courage to out-learn one’s own education, leading to bad reflexes to real-world challenges.
• Designerly technosolutionism (“design can save the world!”).
• Mistake expertise confidence for professional humility.

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