Design’s Tricky Future

The idea that design needs to change following the global financial crisis of 2008 and that market-led design may have had involvement in delivering “an unsustainable mode of world-making” is accepted by all the authors in this book. They have pursued this idea by engaging with the concept of “trickiness”, discussing design in the sense of being able to address “awkwardly tricky” or “misleading tricky” things and problems with the ambition of offering an account of one aspect or another of this change.