The Necessity for Design Literacy – Amongst our leaders and communities
The pathway of design literacy provides an appreciative and discerning view of what we can expect for the efficacy of design literacy. It means we locate both the non-designer and designer in the same framing of design, literacy. This collective view of design literacy is necessary for today’s work because as the author has found in her work the relationship between non-designer and designer is the extent in which there is a literacy or competency or bridge to work and communicate. The balance is knowing the pathway of literacy that one ought to go on and the point in which perhaps the literacy developed is “enough”. The ultimate test for design literacy goes back to the opening question, what is the efficacy in which we need to measure design literacy?