Are Designers resistant to change?
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I like to think of design as solving a problem or communicating something. That doesn't mean that it is a trend-statement though it's certainly influenced by, and influences current trends.
Back to the original question — as people we're resistant to change. Some people like change more than others but generally when something changes that we're used to, it means that we'll have to relearn or develop a new relationship with what has changed. Of course, we'll eventually become accustomed to whatever it was that changed in the first place and resist once more if it changes again.
That said, there's totally change for change's sake in the world of marketing at times. If we question it, it's probably bad marketing. If we embrace it.... then I guess the marketing worked on us!
There's a great quote by Eric Shinseki, "If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less".