Waxing Philisophic...
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- vespa0
Often designers aren't very high up in the chain of (corporate) political decision making so they become very cynical about politics in general and the value of design outside of surface/visual design. My definition of design is creative problem solving. And yes that includes close links to engineering and science.
If you start trading rhetoric in a public forum you will probably be labeled as a pretentious / naive fool. People are perhaps quicker to get wound up than they would be if you were having a discussion with them face to face.
Also the more that people have invested in the idea that they are powerless to change their world, the more they will try and make you feel that way too.
Personally I think design often works well as an iterative process. I think there should always be room for originality but not at the expense of finding the solution that works best.
And we all know that Google knows all - http://www.thebeginnersguidetogr…
(Hang on is that the national front flag?)