Cultivating Professional Identity in Design: Empathy, Creativity, Collaboration, and Seven More Cross-Disciplinary Skills

Cultivating Professional Identity in Design is a nuanced, comprehensive companion for designers across disciplines honing their identities, self-perception, personal strengths, and essential attributes. Designers' identities, whether rooted in education, workforce training, digital technology, arts and graphics, built environment, or other fields, are always evolving, influenced by any combination of current mindset, concrete responsibilities, team dynamics, and more. Applicable to designers of all contexts, this inspiring yet rigorous book guides practitioners and students to progress with ten key traits: empathy, uncertainty, creativity, ethics, diversity/equity/inclusion, reflection, learning, communication, collaboration, and decision-making.

Though it details a complete journey from start to finish, this book acknowledges the varying paths of designers' roles and is structured for a flexible, highly iterative reading experience. Segments can be read individually or out of order and revisited for new insights. Current and future stages of development - education experience, early-career opportunities, mid-career accomplishments, and/or career transitions - are factored in without hierarchy. Specific takeaways, activities, and reflection exercises are intended to work across settings and levels of experience. Design hopefuls and experts alike will find a new way to participate in and persevere through their work.

「培養設計專業身份」是一本細緻而全面的指南，適用於各個領域的設計師，幫助他們塑造自己的身份、自我認知、個人優勢和必要特質。設計師的身份，無論是根植於教育、職業培訓、數位技術、藝術與圖形、建築環境或其他領域，都是不斷演變的，受當前心態、具體責任、團隊動態等多種因素的影響。這本鼓舞人心且嚴謹的書籍適用於各種情境的設計師，引導實踐者和學生發展十項關鍵特質：共情、不確定性、創造力、倫理、多樣性/公平性/包容性、反思、學習、溝通、協作和決策。

儘管該書詳細介紹了從頭到尾的完整旅程，但它也承認了設計師角色的不同路徑，並以靈活、高度迭代的閱讀體驗為結構。各個段落可以獨立閱讀，也可以按照不同順序閱讀，並重新回顧以獲得新的見解。書中考慮了當前和未來的發展階段，包括教育經驗、早期職業機會、中期成就和/或職業轉換，並沒有優先次序。具體的收穫、活動和反思練習旨在適用於各種環境和經驗水平。無論是設計新手還是專家，都能找到參與和堅持工作的新方式。

Monica W. Tracey is Professor in the Learning Design and Technology Program in the Division of Administrative and Organizational Studies in the College of Education at Wayne State University, U.S.A.

John Baaki is Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director, and Graduate Certificate Program in Human Performance Technology Coordinator in the Department of STEM Education & Professional Studies at Old Dominion University, U.S.A.

Monica W. Tracey是美國韋恩州立大學教育學院行政與組織研究學部學習設計與技術計劃的教授。

John Baaki是美國舊道明大學STEM教育與專業研究學系的副教授、研究生計劃主任和人類表現技術研究生證書計劃協調員。