The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed a host of difficult realities to the surface. Not the least of these is the universal understanding that none of us know what is to come of this crisis, or how exactly we should prepare for the future.

Many months on, and the COVID-19 pandemic continues to demand rapid and extraordinary creativity from the global marketplace. Where ‘good enough’ solutions were once sufficient for immediate survival, future-facing organizations are now being called upon to re-embrace the ‘great’, despite the significant challenges and distractions that surround them.

Over the last few months we’ve been rallying our social community for their personal and real-time opinions related to change, innovation and the challenges of our new realities. We’ve gathered some of our most popular questions to explore and reflect upon their most resounding answers and how they relate to the world of design. Let’s take a look:

What will the coming school year look like? It’s a question that parents, educators and most prominently students, are grappling with as the summer days fade into Fall. Yet the complex challenges confronting those who are facing a return to academics — whether via distance learning or in-person education — are just the type that Human-Centered Design was built for.