To be multidisciplinary and expansive within the design landscape is powerful as it allows you to bring in all different perspectives and ideas to a project or problem.This is an important skill as interaction designers must be able to communicate with their team and understand all the sides that are involved in the entire process of designing a product or service. The Mid-Century designers who outlined a need for user-centered design often did so from very expansive ways of thinking and experiences. They united the beauty of art with the technicalities of engineering and industrial design. What we can learn from these designers of multiple disciplines surrounds the complex number of angles design requires one to view from. We must consider the different roles that play into design, roles such as the environment, the physical materials, the aesthetic visual aspects, the technical side. They all come together to create one large collective that will reach people and impact them, which is also something that needs to be considered! Nowadays a designer needs to have a large tool belt, one with many skills and experiences that will be utilized throughout the wide range of projects they take on. To gain a full tool belt we must be constantly aware and observant of interactions around us not just those we take part in. We must also not be afraid to learn outside of our wheelhouse, opening our own eyes to different parts of design we may not see an immediate connection to. These unseen connections may lead us to creating new possibilities and joining disciplines to create new realms of potential innovation, just as art and engineering came together to create the opportunity for design.
