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Social design is a field about designing social technology, social communities, basically social interactions between groups of people. It's related to user experience design and the way that you're trying to design how people interact with software; social design is about designing how people interact with one another. -Niran

“Social design is a system first and foremost for designing fundamental changes in ourselves. A shift in who we think we are, how we perceive and treat each other, and what we believe is possible and can work together to create. It instills a belief in human agency and creativity, and builds the capacity for humans to imagine new stories and new realities for themselves." - Cheryl Heller, The Intergalactic Design Guide

Social Design is ... groups of people