31st
May
2005
The Dark Side of Design Thinking
“While there is much good in design thinking, I think we have to not get carried away about designers’ power. In my experience, I’ve seen many negative qualities of design thinking, qualities that have proven a detriment on projects and to the profession as a whole. Dirk Knemeyer exposes the dark essence of design thinking when stating, in the comments section of an article he wrote, ‘we need to begin controlling the environments that our work is being experienced in.’”