The Attributes of a Designer

In order to be a great designer, you have to be a creative thinker. This means

• thinking “out of the box”

• thinking by yourself

• thinking alone

• thinking about your family

By completing Design for Change projects you will

• develop your athletic ability

• increase your memorization skills

• develop confidence in yourself as a person who can make real change in the world.

• develop fear of speaking in public

Design for Change projects incorporate what three subjects?

• ELA (Reading)

• Math

• Science

• Social Studies

A great designer practices empathy. Empathy means

• the people who will use the design

• understanding another person’s emotions and being able to see where someone else is coming from.

• The design is perfectly suited to the people who need it.

• assume that things have to be a certain way

A great designer is curious. What does this mean that designers do? (choose all that apply)

• look for solutions that might not have been done yet.

• feel that things have to be a certain way

• change their minds

• constantly asks a ton of questions

A great designer is committed to ________ because they want to design solutions that help others feel like they matter.

• justice

• goals

• oppression

• reading

A great designer uses their _______ and _________ to fight for what’s right

• skills and influence

• body and breath

• knowledge and books

• arms and legs

the ______ is who we are designing for.

• world

• user

• teacher

• designer