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

Interview number five is with Tobias van Veen, a visual designer at info.nl, a web design agency in Amsterdam.

I’ve been busy working on a shinier, happier mattbalara.com, so I’ve been a little slow in getting all of these video interviews…

Usually the little bits and pieces of interesting stuff I find online land in my Tumblelog, and Frank Chimero did too, but then I thought this is actually cool enough it should be in the blog. Frank is an illustrator and…

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…

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…