There was a real need for the two to come together and I discovered LeanUX around the time I joined Unboxed. I then spent many years as a database/web developer at a time when design and development were quite separate. Martyn: I studied Fine Art at art college in the late 80s/early 90s and, to be honest, we considered "design" a slightly inferior art form. One of my teacher’s suggested ‘Art and Design’ and that got me started in Graphic Design which evolved into Service Design. Image via Getty Images Ali: I originally applied to do a nursing degree but didn’t get in. Martyn, Director | Dawn, Designer & Researcher | Ali, Designer & Researcher | Lawrence, Designer & Researcher | Yasmeen, Designer & Researcher | Kassie, Writer & Researcher Question One: How did you land up in Design? Unboxed People: Fireside Chat Design Club Session What emerged was a heartfelt conversation that we now invite you to join… “Who are the people that form part of Unboxed’s Design Team?” Image by Michael Byers via The Wall Street Journal Encapsulating both laughter and tears, empowering and humbling moments: these are insights that may surprise you… As the realism of the hot mugs of tea we sipped on fused with the surrealism of a team sitting around a crackling fire. So we took some time out from our busy week and began the session by imagining a natural landscape, a bonfire much like humans first did when storytelling first became a feature of development. What is new - is that we’ve now needed to do this through little electronic screens in separate rooms alongside emerging buzzwords like “Zoom Fatigue” and “Covid Stress Syndrome.” Deploying tools offered up by Design, we wanted to explore just how effective supportive allies such as “imagination” and “visualization” could be in helping overcome the barriers to creative exchange imposed by Covid-19. Since the discovery of fire by humans, we have been gathering together in order to find ways to communicate and exchange histories, ideas and means of solving problems. Neither are these new or unique questions. “Who are we?” “Where do we come from?” “Where are we going?” Storytelling and fireside chats are not novel ideas. Scene Setting: Connection in spite of Isolation The booming question within Design communities, globally, has been “how do we authentically connect with each other without all the traditional means previously so integral to the process?” Image by Glenn Harvey via NY Times From this questioning, our very first Unboxed Storytellers - Fireside Session was born. All of a sudden, we’re working in teams whose individuals have often never interacted with each other in person within a period of time where the establishment of psychological safety and trust have been more essential than ever. Covid-19 and the isolation imposed on us as a result has disrupted the free-flow of creative exchange that would normally occur by virtue of meeting together, exchanging ideas, thoughts and workflows. Quality human-connection is thus not just a nice-to-have but fundamental to the generation of team cohesion and process of knowledge creation that forms the foundation of collaborative design. As a discipline, it demands a culture of psychological safety, trust and authentic connection in order to facilitate the kind of creative exchange that leads to innovative problem-solving. Design is a field that draws thinkers, creators and communicators from a multiplicity of backgrounds.
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