Design is being reinvented. Be it Brand, Product, Digital, Spacial - the core discipline of advancing any of these has, and is continuing to be, transformed. Ironically, it’s the people with the valued experience of longevity in their design careers that often get bewildered by the new, multiple-front process of delivering a designed outcome. 

Those once-warm waters suddenly turn into rapid torrents of murky uncertainties, with overlapping disciplines, new specialists and technology-based media popping up seemingly at random. I have had to learn how to adapt and change to this new playground. These are some key mindsets that I convey to juniors and seniors designers. 
 As presented on UXIndia2016

1. How to get there from here
Design
ThinkingMario Van der Meulen
@MarioVDMeulen

2. Why hello!

3. Graphic
Designosaurus

4. It’s evolution
baby!

5. Form no longer
follows function

6. Interfacing with
everything, everyone,
any time, all the time

7. Design Thinking

8. The useful shelf life
of skills has
shrunk to less
than five years source The Next Evolution of Learning Content, Bersin by Deloitte

9. Welcometothe
deependofthepool

10. Let’s open
the kimono

11. Design is
not a skill

12. Scout first,
soldier later

13. Stop being islands

14. Collaboration
is dead

15. Co-create;
None of us is as
smart as all of us

16. Burst your bubble

17. Overload the
problem

18. Reframe it

19. People are
complicated
wonderfully

20. Find more
low hanging fruit

21. Protect
the idea

22. Design is
never done
happy dance!

23. Design is a mindset
Understand first, define later
Do not work linear
Practice empathy as a process
Think outside your bubble
Find the right problem, get the problem right
Protect the idea
Iterate - done is better than perfect

24. No permission
needed

26. Thank you!Mario Van der Meulen
@MarioVDMeulen