Designing requires an overhead view of what a project entails: the context of the design, the actions and ideas of the designer, and all the other tiny but significant details that come together as a whole.

I am not normally a Boing Boing reader, but the video they posted yesterday of Matt Webb’s presentation from the Copenhagen Reboot conference really blew my mind. Matt discusses the role of the designer in the 21st century, which quite obviously is changing at such a rapid pace right now that any insight is extremely valuable. In the presentation (after the jump) Matt brings up the concept of the “macroscope” which I feel is the fundamental piece of knowledge gained from his presentation, and subsequently the subject of this article.

The presentation is definitely worth a watch, and the accompanying article summarizes some of the big ideas in it.

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