# How You as a Lone Designer Can Change the World

DevFeed: [How You as a Lone Designer Can Change the World](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-you-as-a-lone-designer-can-change-the-world-9056.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://ixdf.org/literature/article/how-can-you-as-a-lone-designer-start-improving-the-world>)

Author: Rikke Friis Dam

Published: 2026-08-13T14:00:00Z

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>), [User experience (UX)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ux.md>)

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

## AI overview

This video article explains how lone designers can use their design expertise to address major societal issues. Don Norman recommends joining organizations already working on these issues, gaining authority within an existing company, or joining a legally structured corporation such as a B Corp.

## Source excerpt

Has Don Norman convinced you to work on important societal issues? As a lone designer, what can you do? If you are a new designer who has just graduated from design school, an experienced designer, or a designer who would like to shift your company's path toward helping the world, there are ways to make these things happen. In this video, Don shares his wisdom on how you can accomplish it by joining an organization or company that is already working on these issues, by gaining authority in your current company, or by joining a type of corporation--such as a "b-corp" in the US--that is actually set up legally to address some important societal issues. "If you want to work on the major societal...