# 95% of Design Schools Are Training You for Jobs That Won't Exist

DevFeed: [95% of Design Schools Are Training You for Jobs That Won't Exist](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/95-of-design-schools-are-training-you-for-jobs-that-won-t-exist-9057.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://ixdf.org/literature/article/how-design-educators-can-help-designers-in-the-21st-century>)

Author: Rikke Friis Dam

Published: 2026-08-15T15:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [UX Daily - User Experience Daily](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ux-daily-user-experience-daily.md>)

Topics: [User Experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/user-experience.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [education](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/education.md>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [skills](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/skills.md>), [user-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/user-experience.md>), [ux-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ux-design.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that design education must evolve as designers increasingly address complex socio-technical systems and societal challenges. It recommends cross-disciplinary learning and partnerships with educators, communities, government, and businesses.

## Source excerpt

The role of designers is changing. We continue to design products and services, but we also design more in the way of complex socio-technical systems and systemic challenges such as climate change, poverty and inequality. In this video, Don Norman makes the case that the way designers learn must also change. He says that design educators should partner with educators from other disciplines -- such as engineering and business -- and train designers to do the same. They should also partner with people outside of education -- in local communities, government and businesses -- to train new designers to bring people together to solve problems. Though Don does not state it in the video, there is an i...