Beyond empathy: designing with rational compassion.
Empathy’s spotlight can blind us. Designers must pair emotional sparks with data, ethics, and long-term impact, shifting from feeling a pain point to systematically easing it for everyone.
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Design is an economic act.
What EPC’s conversation with Simon Gough reveals about strategy, value, metrics, and the future role of design.
The leadership work behind Design.
A panel discussion on the hard calls design leaders make when trust, speed, culture, people, data, and story begin to compete, and what must be protected when every decision comes with a cost.
Should a strong design culture need designers in every room?
Designers and design leaders debated whether strong design cultures should require designers in every room. The discussion opened an important reflection: how can design intent scale without diluting craft, judgement, and the user’s voice?
What design leadership really demands today?
An insightful reflection on design leadership across judgement, information flow, transparency, team growth, ownership, organisational influence, and the evolving role of design beyond output.