Most people, unless their jobs are very production oriented, have some level of influence over design. If that's the company's primary product or a backend system, or simply an internal process. A lot don't internalize this as "design" though usually it's thought of as solving a specific problem, which is part of our job to get more people realizing that what they are doing is design.
The more I work in the industry the more I see my job as a "Design facilitator". I need to enable and guide people to make smarter design decisions rather than trying to control all aspects of design (because that's completely unsustainable).
Most people, unless their jobs are very production oriented, have some level of influence over design. If that's the company's primary product or a backend system, or simply an internal process. A lot don't internalize this as "design" though usually it's thought of as solving a specific problem, which is part of our job to get more people realizing that what they are doing is design.
The more I work in the industry the more I see my job as a "Design facilitator". I need to enable and guide people to make smarter design decisions rather than trying to control all aspects of design (because that's completely unsustainable).