Are Designers Becoming Factory Workers?

If you’re a designer, have you felt like our creative position has become overly optimized and scrutinized? While efficiency and progression are obviously important to a company, designers are kind of in a class to themselves: creativity and doing things outside of the box are the norm, and sometimes overly rigid processes can really hinder the day to day of a creative person. Ultimately, author Matic Pelcl encourages us to figure out our purpose as designers, and push back against governance for governance’s sake, and letting our creative flags fly.