Will the real Designer please stand up?

Das hier ist eine gute Montag-Morgen Lektüre die durchaus zum Nachdenken anregt: On Creation and Consumption.

While the design of democracy is a wonderful thing, democratic design is less positive. We’ve heard over and over that “everyone is a designer,” and that through a combination of user-generated content, ubiquity of access, and new tools, design has finally made its way out of an ivory tower and into the grasp of the masses. What, exactly, have the masses gotten their grubby paws into? Can one truly claim to be a designer when they upload a picture to Facebook or remix a video for YouTube?

Ab wann kann man sich ernsthaft ein Designer nennen? Sind wir nicht alle irgendwie Designer - oder keiner von uns? Lesenswerter Beitrag, wie ich finde.