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As designers, we’re doing our best to advance social progress. But often, we find ourselves tinkering around the edges, making—at best—incremental improvements. Is design as a discipline simply not equipped to tackle the daunting challenges currently facing our world? 
Designers have a super power: the power to shape individual behavior. But what if we could shift behavior and mental models in ways that disrupted bigger systems and institutions?
This talk shares reflections from Reboot’s work with governments and civil society actors in Libya, Nigeria, and beyond, to explore what the role of interaction design may be in tackling structural governance challenges.