Design Practice
EPC Design Dialogues: On Design as a Practice
Takeaways from EPC Design Dialogues’ round tables on leadership, critique, AI, B2B delight, behaviour, coaching, and the shift from design as output to design as responsible judgment.
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Friction vs Foundation in design teams.
What weakens design first is rarely the obstacle you can point at. It is often the ground beneath it. A useful way to rethink why teams break, adapt, or grow.
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Designing for the bad days of your users.
The real test of design is not how it works on a good day. It is whether it still holds when the user is stressed, interrupted, overwhelmed, or simply not okay.
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Designers as observers of the unseen.
Great design often begins before users say anything at all. In the pause, the hesitation, the unspoken discomfort, there is a signal. The best designers do not just study behaviour. They learn to notice what escapes the chart.
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Your medium makes your decisions.
Your notebook isn’t just holding your ideas. It’s steering them. Page size, friction, and even how erasable a mark feels can push you toward commitment or endless iteration, clarity or chaos. Change the surface, and you may notice your decisions change first.