ABSTRACT
Here, in this chapter, we focus on design technologists who are, or aspire to become, designers. Designers who are computationally savvy, influencing the design process through computational means. Design technologists who also design, or who become full-time designers, leveraging their talent for technology on building design projects. Design technologists who have an interest in being a designer, whether technology is an impediment, or expediter to their becoming designers. Design technologists return technology to design, figuring out how to incorporate both analog and digital technology into projects, team workflows, and their firms’ work processes – not for its own sake, but to improve the design, functionality, and affordability of projects. They’re always looking for opportunities for technology to make them better designers. Earlier defined, more rapidly iterated, higher-quality design. The chapter asks whether designers, technical project architects, or managers represent the future of design technologists, and concludes with a look at the third space, where design technologists are proactively designing the design process.
