designers are born, not made
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To be honest, I think every single one of us has the capacity from birth to operate in these kind of fields, the only 'natural' modifier on this being a basic level of intelligence.
As a race we are all definitively predisposed to creativity and to problem solving or we would not have progressed as a species in the way that we have. Everything beyond basic intelligence is nurture in my view and I used to be very much in the nature camp. "talent" is a funny thing to define; some people may think in ways which lend themselves more to verbal communication or visual communication, some might 'see' form in such a way that would allow them to reproduce it more accurately given the right training and indulgence - pure creativity and problem solving though is fundamental human trait which is in all of us and there to be developed under the right circumstances. Depends what you're placing the highest emphasis on as the core purpose of 'design' maybe...