The “T” shaped designer expertise. The “reverse-T” shaped designer horizon.

Abstract

A “T” shaped conceptual representation of designer’s expertise is well known and adopted; it has a horizontal knowledge of close professions and a vertical knowledge of design processes. A “reverse-T” novel model is introduced, indexing horizontally the broad horizon of design professional’s workplaces and vertically the progressive rise of design professionals inside institutions hierarchies. The aim is to propose an effective model capable of distil different aspects of the design phenomena.