What is the Role of a Designer?

Mushafau Ade Kukoyi
Designing For Human Experience
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01-24-06

What is the Role of a Designer?

As a designer, my role is to work through and for other people, by creating ideas that appeal to the interest, needs and budget of my clients, rather than focusing on my own desire.

Also, a designer is expected to balance the extent to which the end user would be able to configure the product and put it to use. That is the practicability of the design is very crucial.

I am also responsible for supervising the production of the work, which is often subject to constant changes during the process of production. In most cases, these changes are not necessary due to the designer’s choice, but might be objectively determined by such factors as production cost, availability of required materials or techniques, a change in client’s core requirements, or discovery of key problems that were not obvious in the early stages of the project. Also, I must be practical and prepared for extensive responsibilities to other people.

Furthermore, as a designer, I have to work with other people with whom I have a contractual relationship. This is with the hope of reconcile various professionals involved in the production process at various stage. Such coordination includes sorting, ordering, and relating information. Thus bringing qualities of judgment and discrimination as much as a creative imagination in the interest of the client.

In conclusion, as a designer, I must be able to evaluate problems, or an opportunity, in a dispassionate way, on its terms (as well as his own), and to select, arrange and dispose his decisions accordingly. Also, I must be able to strive on constraint and to turn every opportunity to good account, spending at least half of the time working with graphic media of one sort or another during the final stages of the design.