So You’re Thinking of Becoming a Designer
If I could tell one thing to designers-to-be … from Kevin Cheng on Vimeo.
A few days ago, my friend Liz Danzico asked a number of designers, researchers and other industry vetarans including Jim Coudal, Jared Spool, Joshua Porter, Ryan Sims, Steve Portigal, Whitney Hess and many others to answer this:
So you’re thinking about being a designer? If I could tell you only *one thing* about going into the field, my advice would be ________.
I thought of a lot of different answers, many of them quite cynical. I imagine my time watching the industry’s discussions and throwing peanuts at it from OK/Cancel makes me think that way a lot. For example, I considered answering with, “don’t use convoluted phrases just to make yourself sound smarter.” In the end, I erred on the side of practicality:
The other answers have been collected on the School of Visual Arts blog.
You had the best poster frame, btw!
Thanks, Steve. I wasn't skilled enough to record while driving so I had to compensate!
I had the services of a cameraperson. I just didn't want to be standing in front of a wall and talking.
Hey, you know that your RSS feed just has a bunch of search terms like viagra and other prescription drugs, right? Weird. It links to the post fine but the content is not there.
Someone else told me this. I can't trace why it's happening because I'm not seeing it. Grrrr.
You should be a professional audio book reader in your spare time. That voice is silky soothing!
Fixed! Thanks!
Haha, thanks Paul. I once was told I should be a DJ for an easy listening radio station. I -think- it was a compliment