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What is an Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Designer?

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Design is everywhere. From the environments we live and interact within, to fast-moving consumer goods such as the shampoo bottle (and its label) you decant from in your morning shower, to the newspaper you read on your tablet (or if analogue...paper), to the coffee cup you drink from. Virtual environments, smartwatch and phone interfaces, shoes, clothing, vehicle controls, their tyres. Everything has had a designer involved in its creation. The designer's role is critical in this human-centric world you and I live in. So, the act of designing is a means of facilitating interaction between the user (whether this is human, animal or machine) and an object or environment. During this process, the designer will take various factors into consideration. These will include the context of the user, functional aesthetics, the scale of economics, manufacturing processes, the sustainability of the materials being used and the product's lifecycle. Throughout this process, a designer will bring th

Jewellery as sculpture. ©2017 Duncan Stevens. Duncan S. Duncan S. Published Feb 19, 2020 I get asked, "What is a multi or interdisciplinary designer anyway?" Design is everywhere. From the environments we live and interact within, to fast-moving consumer goods such as the shampoo bottle (and its label) you decant from in your morning shower, to the newspaper you read on your tablet (or if analogue...paper), to the coffee cup you drink from. Virtual environments, smartwatch and phone interfaces, shoes, clothing, vehicle controls, their tyres. Everything has had a designer involved in its…

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