Hi, I’m Matt Balara.I solve design problems with my head.

Dear Cannes Cyber Lions,

I’m writing just to say hi. I’ve looked at, and occasionally up to you for the seven years I’ve been working in an agency, but I’m leaving the agency microcosm soon and wanted to give you some…

The fourth interview is with Vinay Venkatraman, senior interaction designer & project manager at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.

I quite liked his view on analysis vs. synthesis and the role it plays in design:

Design is one of the professions…

I failed to mention a pretty important event in my online life a couple weeks ago. Without us actually knowing each other at all, Stowe Boyd invited me to not only redesign his blog, /message (I did mention that), but he…

The third in this series is Julian Bleecker, a member of Nokia’s Design Strategic Projects Studio and co-founder with Nicolas Nova of the Near Future Laboratory.

My favourite quote, answering the question, “What is design?”

It’s close to being able to create…

The second in this series is Andy Budd, user experience director at clearleft in Brighton, England.

The microphone on my flip video camera could be better, so I apologise for the windy sound quality. And I was still getting used to video…