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The impact of computing confronts all professions, profoundly affecting the way that they function and challenging occupational relevance and survival. A common misperception is that emerging technologies automatically replace traditional skills, making many specialist skills redundant, effectively deskilling expertise. This chapter explores deskilling in the context of design representation and discusses the potential of new technologies as both a generator and absorber requiring new techniques, approaches, and thinking with which to create a new skills-base.