Check out this quick Vox video by Phil Edwards on the Lincoln Monument and how it almost wasn’t built. This is a great analogy to what many of us in design encounter at times when guiding stakeholders to a solution. Lisa Benton-Short lists in the video lack of vision, fiscal conservatism, and lack of will as “the perfect storm of nothing happens”. Designers in the process can help by showing people the vision in such a compelling way that it not only explains, it overcomes the lack of will. It is also incumbent upon us to help find the most financially responsible solution, or to help show how this solution might have outsized returns.
