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National Design Policy Council Video Submission

I just completed my submission for the National Design Policy Council’s video campaign. I figured that it would be helpful to explain the importance of design to non-designers through the use of practical examples. Here are the questions I answered:

1. What role does design play in US economic competitiveness?
2. What role does design play in the US democratic governance?
3. In what specific ways, would a national design policy further enable design to play those roles?
4. What would you pledge to do to help design play that role?

Here’s the video:

I created a separate page for this little project so that when this post rolls off the front page, the information will still be easy to find.