Designing as Well-being

The adoption and mis-adoption of design thinking in companies opens up an issue for today designers: within the plural meanings of design as problem-solving, sense-making and creative-collaboration practice, the purpose of its adoption goes often lost in translation, and is unclear and hill-defined. This is not a minor problem indeed, as it can bring about unwonted effects of disillusion for a team, and ineffective or useless ideas for a company. This issue actually originates an opportunity: there is indeed a great room for design in the reform of organizational culture, considering that everybody designs, design skills and creativity can be learned and developed and this can bring individual and collective well-being. This introductory chapter for the book Human Resource Design, discusses this issue.