Designing ...why be a desginer
What are the qualities of a desginer ? Analytic mind ; a mind that can capture the patterns, decode them and also apply them ? yes ....... Skill .....definitely .....without physical attributation abstract designs are castles in the air... Art .......maybe not exactly because therein lies the difference between art and design. Art is an extension of the artist himself......an art form is created for the self satisfaction of the artist. Its beauty while evident to the world is actually meant for the artist himself / herself to revel in. A Design is different in that sense. A design is meant for OTHERS. The designer needs a quality more than the ones above and that is SENSITIVITY. A design is a utility object. Meant to satisfy the ones using it. And so the first thing that a desginer should think of is how can the design cature the expressed and unexpressed needs of the users using it. We in IT especially in Fin Services design systems. And so we must be focussed to our users and accept