Interview with The Design Blog

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I was just interviewed by Pooja Kashyap of thedesignblog.org. This was my first interview that lasted for more than half an hour; Pooja’s questions made me put my growing cloud of abstract design ideas into words, and I came out of the interview with a much clearer perspective and even more ideas. Thank you Pooja! Here are some excerpts:

Pooja: What particular challenges do you think designers face these days?
Joey: Designers still buy into this story that they’re artists and need to leave marketing and production to “business” people. This mentality is why products are boring and harmful. The internet allows designers to crawl further up the supply chain than ever before and to sell directly to customers- more of us need to do this.

Pooja: Please tell our readers your concept of using stories as the sketches for designs?
Joey: The beginning of my design process is describing the object verbally, thinking about the kind of plot development it would enable in a story, and especially thinking about how the human characters would feel about it. Only then do I start extruding shapes in Solidworks.

Pooja:What is innovation to you - design, technology or the creative processes itself?
Joey:I think innovation is curating the chunks of information you pick up from daily life in a smart way.

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