All of sudden, we weren’t just designing something visual, but we needed to understand human behaviour, to see ourselves in other people’s contexts ( don’t get me started on our empathy phase!!! ), to learn how the decisions we made could affect a company’s bottom line, etc.

But along the way, we lost something. The actual work we were producing.... See more

great designers start with clear, compelling narratives about the context of the customer’s problem they’re solving for.