Role of designers in changing lives in the societies
In the essay below, our main topic of discussion will be how the designers can be social change agents in terms. The issue of the discussion covers a variety of different problems in the essence of supporting the topic of discussion. Designers, in our case, are those who act like those who make some things more efficient besides making sure that everything around their social life is in order, and they try to make more pleasing to those around them. For example, we have different people of social designers, such as the information designers’ technology designers, structural designers, and multimedia designers. These are some types of designers whom we are going to look at in the essay below in essence of elaborating more about designers act in the capacities of social change agents. Social change is whereby when there are different doings in certain society things that were not there before. Still, they come to the society to change the normal activities of social doings. In the essay below, it is mainly going to talk about how these designers act as the agents of transforming the social changes in society. This means that the article is going to broadly look at how these designers have played a tremendous impact on the essence of ensuring that there is a change among the societies in which people are living.
Beginning with information designers, these are mainly people who play a tremendous impact on the social change of different societies. This means that the information designers play an immense effect on ensuring there are various changes in the community, the reason the topic of discussion is trying to talk about information designers is that information is key to many social reforms. Information is very crucial to any kind of society, and also to anyone who comes across it. This is because it is the key that is used in spreading messages which are intended to be delivered to people living in a particular society. Looking at information design is based in many ways, and also it spread in many different ways. On the means through which the information designers spread the information is through the use of social media, and the other means through which data can be spread is through schools and other institutions like churches. This means that if a person was to disseminate information, one has to use the designated categories in the essence of making sure that the intended message reaches the intended people in the society (Hee, 2014, p. 67). And if the information passed may not be for the right people, it brings up negative changes to the unintended people which means that as information designers are spreading their knowledge to people, they also need to look at the people whom they spreading information and how they should make sure that information which they are passing is legible for the intended persons who have gotten the information. Looking at how the information designers have changed the social changes of people they have used in many different ways. One way is through education that they have brought a difference in the social lives of people. For example, looking in Africa, most people did not know much about culture; instead, the kind of information that many people used to believe in is that of their cultural beliefs. This means that looking at the current situation in Africa; many people are now focusing on education, which is a norm that many people did not know in the early stages. This means that there was a type of social change because; the Africans had now shifted from the traditional norms to have the eagerness to learn more about education (Hu, 2018, p.123).
The reason behind the African people shifting from the traditional norms to the education way of doing their activities it means that the people who designed the information about the education they had planned it in a way that would be pealing to know and make it more efficient to anyone who comes across it and that is the reason why we see that in the current situation in Africa education is a daily normal which people must undergo. This means that information designers can use the information in changing the social lives of people living in a particular society as to how our example has illustrated it. Also, looking at another example, we have the information which is spread through social media, and the information is either mainly gotten from people who had been there before or are intending to make money as a result of the information which they are passing to people. The information which is spread through social media, in most cases, it does not bring in positivity to the normal lives of people. Instead, it brings in negativity in most cases (Oihane, 2018, p. 45). For example, most of the information the youth get from social media is far from how their parents used to live. We see that in the many societies today, many of the children are getting involved in behaviors that their parents never passed through or either never knew about, but through the social media majority of the youths are gathering information which is not suitable for their daily life. In the same case, we also have knowledge gained from social media, which is very beneficial to most youths, and t most of them are using it to build their lives, which is a perfect way to go. Looking at the information gathered in the social media those who acquire it either negatively or positively it has a very being impact to changing the social life of people because those who are behind them they are also going to follow the same root in and which means that the behaviors or the ethical values gained from the social media will be beneficial to change the society in one way or another (Salokhe, 2018, p. 23).
For example, looking at the information which is gained from social media such as cybersecurity, it gets to be understood by different in many different ways, which means that it will have both negative impacts and also, at the same time, positive effects. Looking at some people, they look at it in a positive way, whereby they will look at it in a way that they can use it in the essence of benefiting from it. This is learning about it and having the skills of helping people from getting hacked or from being involved in cybercrime activities. In another way which the cybersecurity can have an impact on the lives of people in a negative way, whereby some people will think of getting involved in the cybercrime activities in the essence of getting rich, and this is through hacking which means that it is an activity which can lead people to the negativities. This means that the information designers come to design information that gets everybody’s’ attention in many different ways, either negatively or positively. The main key point is that the data intended by the information designers get to change to the social lives of people living in the society, which means that information which is passed in either is used as a social life changer (Khedekar, 2017, p.91).
Besides the information designers, the essay below is also going to talk about the structural designers who are people who are based in different ways. The architectural designers, in many ways, are those people who design the buildings. They are people that make sure the various structures that we see are in good condition and are very appealing to anyone who comes across them, and this means that in the topic below the main text of discussion will be how the structural designers have acted as the principal agents of making sure that there are social changes in our societies. Besides, the topic of discussion is going to broadly explore the key impacts which the structural designers have had on the lives of people living in the societies. Looking at the example which the essay below is using and which is the transformation of Africa from their traditional ways to the modern techniques, the structural designers have played a massive role in ensuring that there is change In the social lives of people in the different societies. Looking at the African lives of people, they used to live in structures made of grass and mad; this means that their houses were not that efficient as those built in different ways such as stones. But due to the structural designers who came in with new architectural designs such as the building houses which are made of iron sheets and others which are made of stones which means that the structure which they came up with is more efficient than the traditional ones this changed the standard way of doing their normal activities and this is because these structures were more and are still more admirable till today. Out of the new structures brought about by the structural designer’s majority of the African shifted from the living in the African households made of the mad and grass where they turned to the new structures which are made of different materials which are also more safe and efficient. The reason why the Africans shifted from their traditional structures is that the structures brought about the structural designers were more legible and also very attractive that it made the majority of then change from their conventional buildings to the current premises, which were brought out. In this case, we see how the structural design is influencing the social lives of people. This is because of how people are shifting from their traditional norms to the modern norms which have been created by the structural designers. In the same case, the structural designers have also shifted many activates in many different ways, such as making sure that people are enrolling in structural designing. Due to how the structural design has made many activities in the building sector to be more attractive, it has made changes also in the livelihood of different people, and this is because many people have shifted their work to becoming structural designers and also the works which are related to the designer. This is because the structural designer deals with mainly making sure that a certain building is built in good shape and in way that is very efficient to anyone who comes across the building structure and this means that the work of structural designer has attracted very many people (Iyes, 2018, p. 235).
For example in the work of the structural designer there comes in hand with an engineer who is followed up by people the foreman and now the man work which needs people such as the carpenters and also those people who help in the man work. This means that in the line, it has brought about many job opportunities for different people, in this case where the topic of discussion is looking at how the structural designer and how it has affected the lives of people who are living in the society. In the education sector, we now have different courses which are related to the work of structural designer and also the trend line which it comes about it with such as the contractor, engineers and even the carpenters we also see them being learned in the courses nowadays which has attracted a lot of people in this field. And this means that majority of people have been changed as a result of the work done by a structural designer. Apart from that, the works which are related to an architectural designer work hand in hand with many job opportunities, which have also changed the atmospheres in many societies. The reason behind it is because many people have enrolls in this work, and henceforth they are focusing on making sure that they feed their families due to these jobs, which come alongside the work of the structural designer. Looking at the traditional ways of how people lived, this has led to a lot of people changing their past norms, and now they have shifted to the current way of doing their daily activities. The reason behind it is because in the current era that we are living we do not see the past household which people used to live and this is because due to the contemporary designs which have been done by the structural designers and this means that people have shifted their way of doing the present things and activities. This primarily shows how the people have been changed by the works done by the structural designers, which means that the societies are changing as a result of this impact (Amatuli, 2018, p.634).
The essay below is also going to look at the multimedia designers. What is a significant type of designer which has shifted the usual way people conduct their activities in the social media sector? In this area, the essay is mainly going to look at social media designers and how their impact has been in society. In this area, multimedia designers are those who come up with the platforms and the areas that most people use to browse the internet. These platforms are such as Facebook, Twitter, and internet search platforms such as Google and being. These platforms and other areas related to the internet have a very high impact on the lives of people living in different societies. This is because there is a lot of information on the internet and these social media platforms. The information on social media has a very high impact on people’s lives in a different society. And mainly looking in the current world that we are living, most of the activities primarily done are brought about by what people gain from social media. Some of the impacts obtained from social media have positive results, while others have adverse effects. Looking at these impacts, they have shaped what is being seen in the current society in which we live in many different ways (Mendoza-Cuenca, 2015, p. 1210).
Embracing the positive impact the multimedia designers are doing the majority of the activities is based on how it impacts the people who come across the information which has been listed out. For example, the majority of the students and mostly at the tertiary levels use social media to educate themselves even when they are still at homes, which is a positive impact that is very efficient for each. Everyone’s who uses social for education purposes. Multimedia designers have created different platforms that people use to acquire the necessary knowledge they need from social media for educational purposes. Apart from that, social media is also used to pass the information, which makes a lot of work easier for most of the people who are using it as a form of communication. This mainly applies to the personal business people who intend to pass their information to their customers, and this means that in the essence of making sure that they can deliver what their customers want to get from them (Humphries, 2012, p. 234)—looking in the past majority of students they had to go to school so that they can be able to acquire the necessary information which they need to gain to pass their examinations and also in essence of making sure that they achieve the targets in their life. But looking in the current era due to the way the multimedia designers have designed the method of acquiring education materials has made it easier for students to obtain the information they need from social media quickly. Apart from that, social media has made things easier because students who can learn from home can also be part of the classroom as long as they have functional internet connectivity. Looking also in the advertising sector the social media has made things easier because most of the work can now be straightforwardly passed to their customers. Their customers can easily acquire the information they need to get from them in the easiest. And if it is in the essence of making sure that their customers come to get the goods which they need from them, then it will be easier for them to acquire the products intended for their customers. This highly shows how multimedia designers have played a tremendous impact on how they design the internet platform, making it easier for those who are intending to use the platforms easy for them (Nayaka, 2018, p. 281).
In the same case, we also have the negative impacts which are also seen. For example, we have social media bullying, which is an impact that has been embraced by most people and has been facing teenagers. Social media bullying is mainly being brought about by the information which many people pass in the social media sector. This is an area that has affected many people in many different ways changing even the way people undertake their daily activities. Social media bullying is being caused by the way a person can post something on social media. Many people who may come across they intend to criticize it, leading even to health problems to the designated person (Ding, 2014, 347).
Conclusively, the designers which the essay has shortlisted it has profoundly affected how the various acts of these designs are changing different people in the societies. The type of designers the piece has been able to look at is information designers, structural designers, and multimedia designers. The article has been able to dig deep on the type of designers, and it has been able to shortlist how they have impacted people living in different societies.
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