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Ten competency areas enabling design
The ID Competence Framework includes
ten specific competency areas that are
involved during designing, related to the
content of the system, product or service
to be designed, and/or to the approach
needed for the act of designing or becoming
a designer. These ten competency areas are:
• Self-Directed and Continuous Learning
• Descriptive and Mathematical Modelling
• Integrating Technology
• Ideas and Concepts
• Form and Senses
• User Focus and Perspective
• Social Cultural Awareness
• Designing Business Processes
• Design and Research Processes
• Teamwork and Communication
Although all competencies have strong relationships
and together are necessary for the overall competence of
designing, some of these competencies can be seen as
meta-competencies. These competencies are necessary for
all other competencies to develop. Especially Self-Directed
and Continuous Learning is an important meta-competency,
but also Teamwork and Communication as well as Design
and Research Processes have a meta-character. Modelling
in general can be considered a meta-competency but in this
framework we focus on a specific kind of modelling. We will
briefly describe all ten competency areas.