Designing Diversity, Unpredictability, Creativity

  Diversity, creativity and unpredictability are top priorities of the moment in the world of workplace design. Why? As much as the A&D community feels the persistent gap between the value of good design and the public’s understanding of the value of good design, we are making progress. Good design is more and more making its way to people in all price points and all classes of society. And as that value becomes more established, designers are graced with more freedom – freedom to explore, to innovate and to be more creative. That creativity and innovation and exploration has the potential to then leak into consumers; they get to be more creative too. Consumers’ exposure to good design turns into an expectation of good design – which leads to more creativity and innovation from the designer. This shift has reached the workplace through a few channels, including: The advent of the …