Product design is all about usability. About making life easier. About finding tipping points that simplify, delight, and appeal to users. Politics on the other hand, seems to be about bifurcating along political lines. About lobbying, padding pocketbooks, career making, and sneaking through clauses that weigh down good laws with favors and short-sighted flab.
What would our country look like if we designed policies like we do products- to be elegant, functional, SIMPLIFYING? What if politicians acted more like designers? Instead of muckraking and mudslinging, they put their effort and money into publicizing great ideas?
What if our government worked collaboratively, like a design team, across the aisles? What could happen if instead of arguing, we ignored the bad ideas and put all our energy on implementing the best ideas? What if in determining the shape of policies, we could have "meaningful engagement" on the part of those effected by the policies? What if we forgot about party lines for awhile and focused on good design, on problem solving, on solutions that empathize rather than impose?
Couldn't we design our future better if we redesigned our way of working?
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