During the third night of our Pop-Up XPLANE adventure in Detroit, we hosted a panel of brainiacs at DC3 to discuss their worlds of design. Our Creative Director Roel Uleners was joined by Sarah White, Gensler’s Design Strategist, and Christopher Patten, Henry Ford Learning Institute’s Associate Director of Design Thinking to dive into the inner workings of design thinking and what it really means to have “design” in your title.

Our consultant Nina live-captured the discussion. These are her sketch notes: