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Design Literacy in the Age of Intelligent Automation

Designing is not a profession but an attitude. — László Moholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion 1947 Ask someone to define design, and they’ll likely describe what designers make—architects draft buildings, graphic designers create logos, industrial designers shape products, and software designers make apps. This is how we typically understand design, by its outputs. The weight of these definitions grows heavier over time. The older the craft, the more its history constrains what seems possible, what is acceptable, and what defines “good design.” My parents are both designers—though they never used the

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