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

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 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…

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…