The sixth video in the series is Marston Alfred, 17 year type 1 diabetic and founder of Sugar Stats, an online tool that helps diabetics track their own bloodsugar levels.
I took a very short and simple quote away from Marsten’s interview. Design is:
The experience put into context.
I interviewed eleven smart people at Reboot10 in Copenhagen, Denmark, asking the same question: what’s design mean to you? There are currently six videos in the series, and more coming soon. Next up is Howard Rheingold.
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 online. Today I’ll put up at least two, maybe three, more interviews, so sit back and enjoy some smart thoughts from smart people.
What’s design to Tobias?
Design for me is to create a total user experience in a product that customers should use very easily, and enjoy!
This is the fifth of a series of interviews I did with eleven very different people at Reboot 10 in Copenhagen, Denmark. You can see all interviews here.
I quite liked his view on analysis vs. synthesis and the role it plays in design:
Design is one of the professions that bridges the analytical way of doing things with the synthetical way of doing things. If you consider analysis to be breaking a thing down into finite elements, and looking at relationhips inside it and making sense out of it, you can say that synthesis is about the interrelationships and the combinations of things. I think that designers have this unusual intuition for what could be meaningful in this analytical [information]. It’s less rational, and more emotional in its approach.
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 things for people … understanding people as social entities, not just as masses of tendon, meat and bone.
I interviewed eleven smart people at Reboot10 in Copenhagen, Denmark, asking the same question: what’s design mean to you? This is the third video in the series.
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 interviews, so I apologise also to Andy for cutting half his face off through much of the interview.
It’s totally off-topic, but I have to admit my favourite quote was this one:
People have suggested that being able to wrangle sharks is actually quite good when dealing with clients…
I interviewed eleven smart people at Reboot10 in Copenhagen, Denmark, asking the same question: what’s design mean to you? This is the second video in the series. The last two, Kars Alfrink and Thomas Vander Wal, should be up tomorrow.
A while back I asked here on the blog “What’s Design Mean to You?” Just before reboot I had the idea to ask the smart people at the conference the same question. The result is eleven videos. I’ll be posting them here as I get them cut and uploaded.
The first is Eckhard Rotte, developer at Neuland in Bremen, Germany.
My favourite quote:
When engineers and designers really work together, that’s good design.
I interviewed eleven smart people at Reboot10 in Copenhagen, Denmark, asking the same question: what’s design mean to you? This is the first video in the series.
