"Omni-Specialized Design for Beautiful Futures"

In the past few years, I’ve been very interested in the critiques of design thinking and human-centered design more broadly—which mostly focus on the empathy part of the design-thinking process, i.e. whether I, as a white man, can ever truly design for the experiences of marginalized communities.

I’ve also seen a lot of ideas about how to fix design to make it more inclusive. Not all of them are compelling, but this talk from designer Ari Melenciano caught my eye: