What’s different about interdisciplinary design?

Here’s the table of contents of Ellen’s new book, Graphic Design Thinking. In it, she explains the tools of the gd process. In working on the Method chapter, I’m wondering, what makes interdisciplinary design method different from the regular design method? Also, much of this comes from straight forward project management (working with others, making flow charts, accountability, etc); what’s different about interdisciplinary method? Feel free to respond to this post with an answer. Here are some of my thoughts:

IDGD is about breaking down boundaries, not setting them up. It’s about building a joint process where disciplines melt down into something surprisingly new, not done before.

IDGD is about hybrid ways of working and hybrid outcomes.

IDGD is about being visionary.

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