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Asked by Tom Cotterill - Does user-centred design fuel narcissism? As a consultant for many companies, I come up against people who are constantly complaining about leaders being narcissistic. It's surprising how as a UX industry we have to be naturally compassionate and

empathetic towards our users but some people struggle to show the same empathy and open-mindedness towards their peers.
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Every action triggered have a backstory. Some of the stories are as follows.
1) Its the result of Steve Jobs Pseudo Corporate

Culture, not the way he actually was but the way he was projected in promotions & movies.
2) Art is about Attitude but UX is not, although aesthetic UI design is about attitude. Some goes with skeuomorphic & other be with flat. In flat too the trend keep changing.

3) It requires some amount of Dexterity in the subject by both the parties to communicate. Engineers don't go around explaining every tit-bit, same with Doctors & Lawyers. But in case of Designers, the Stakeholders won't hesitate to ask opinionated sharp questions expecting

instant replies just because they can see it. If its Java Coding Language, Human Body or Terms n Condition documents filled with microscopic letter no one will ever care.
4) Design Advocacy is complicated. It is not street smart aptitude with instant reply. Digging the right

Paradox, Principal, Templates & Terminologies for explaining the basic concepts too takes time & effort. Like the Self Driven Cars infamous Trolly Problem that results in one of the mass multi cultural study still with no straight answer.
5) In case of therapy the patient is

first prepared with mild sessions. Practicing Therapy takes years. People call themselves Design Thinking coach after just day workshop. Design thinking coaches take workshop for the whole company without preparing the individuals through basic sessions. Design Thinking have deep

links with Neuro Linguistic Programming. It take years of practice to be Tony Robbins.
6) USA initiative to Teach everyone to code failed because they realise its better not to be a coder than end up being a messy coder. We can expect something in the same line soon for

designing too. Practicing it for Hobby is always welcomed but practicing it as profession can't be taken lightly because Designers have became a responsible profession that tackle with accident and hazard.
If we can raise few prominent humble Design Leaders then world will take

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