Deformation Professionnelle

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What is Deformation Professionnelle?

Deformation professionelle is a cognitive bias that restricts a designer’s view of the world. Where most people will see things from a more general point of view, designers—and other specialists, for that matter—run the risk of sticking only to the views offered by the lens of their expertise. Being so biased by their professional backgrounds can trap designers into limited viewpoints, and they may therefore overlook vital points about a design problem or proposed solution.

As this symptom of “over-specialization” in one field can prove to be such an obstacle, it’s healthy and helpful to flip the view you, and your team members, may have on a problem at hand. For example, design thinking is extremely useful for accessing vantage points to view matters and harvest insights into the users’ world you might otherwise miss altogether.

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