What’s the relationship between power & expertise?
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Over the past year, we’ve spent a lot of time talking with designers about the dynamics of leveraged power. Since design is a form of leveraged power, it’s important for us to understand how power is created & worked with in any organization.
Done well, this allows our designs to ship with minimal interference. Critique goes easily. People trust you more. And you get that “seat at the table” with less mess.
If we ignore power, though, we end up with our current mess, where designers are constantly denigrated and laid off. And so it’s important for us to step into our power by understanding how power is created.
So in this lesson, we’ll talk about how the creation & promotion of expertise can allow us to more easily amass the power that we need to do our jobs correctly.
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