“The Creative Factor” Talk Series by Peru Meridian Studios | Design and failure: falling forward from unwanted design

As designers and business leaders, we constantly encounter failure as a natural part of the development process. Join IDSA NYC for a sharing of failures to find inspiration in these moments and ways to embrace more failures to come in the pursuit of creating meaningful products for a better world. 

Participants: Katie Lim (Moderator), Divya Chaurasia , Rebeccah Pailes- Friedman, Joseph Guerra, Keith Roades

Failure is a familiar friend to us all. As designers and business leaders, we strive to introduce meaningful products to the world, but they aren’t always as impactful as we hoped and in many unfortunate cases, harm more than help. These are only the tip of the iceberg for the amount of failures we encounter as a natural part of the design process: A moment when a sketch went completely wrong in front of clients, a prototype disaster, an innovation that had no applications, a manufacturing oversight… We must embrace these moments and expose our stories to learn from another and appreciate the growth (and sometimes laughter) failure provides. Failure is necessary to make progress.