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Designing in the Face of Uncertainty: When Design Becomes a Compass
By Abel Valdez “We designers often focus too much on the object being designed, and not enough on the system within which it operates.” — Don Norman, *The Design of Everyday Things*. In contexts where uncertainty is the norm rather than the exception, design begins to take on a role different from the one traditionally attributed to it. It is not merely a matter of beautifying, communicating, or cr
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Abel Valdez
Sobre Abel
Abel Valdez holds degrees in Design (Universidad La Salle) and Philosophy (UNAM). Product designer at Landor (2016–2017). Director of Innovation and co-founder at Nosotrxs (2017–2020), where Abel coordinated projects such as cerodesabasto.org and pushed for the social security law for domestic workers. Professor of Design Methodologies at Universidad Panamericana from 2020 to 2023; Abel has also given workshops at the Stanford d.school. Since 2019, co-founder and co-director of Accionar.io, a laboratory for democracy, where Abel coordinates and designs people-centered technology for thousands of activists, movements and organizations in Mexico and Latin America. In 2021, founded Espacio Nativo, a social innovation hub in Mexico City that brings together 30+ organizations such as change.org, DW, Ashoka and Conservation International. Board member of the Fighting Inequality Alliance and of Techo. Currently collaborates with the government of Mexico on the development of App Mx and Llave Mx, the country’s main digital public infrastructure tools.
