Organisation

Design Responsibility

DE: Gestaltungsverantwortung

Responsibility for the effects one's design makes more likely in daily work — not for what it intended.

Design responsibility is responsibility for the effects that one's own design makes more likely — not for the intention behind it.

Context

Whoever shapes conditions — decision rights, incentives, defaults, consequences, AI systems — shapes behaviour. Design responsibility is not foresight of every consequence; it is the willingness to read effect and decide again.