As a designer in my 30s who has worked in 4 different countries and countless projects, here are 5 things I'd tell myself at 20.
> Design is a job. Don't make it your entire personality.
> Pursue your curiosities and allow yourself to be obsessed with them.
> Be ready to move. Design careers need exposure and a market that allows you to play. Very few places in the world have that.
> Learn to identify supporters, gatekeepers and spectators. Most people are spectators. Spend your energy on the first group and stop auditioning for the second.
> Build something that is yours alongside the job. A side project, a community, a small product. A job can end in a ten minute meeting.
BONUS: Marry a designer :)
what do you get when you combine a large HEPA 13 filter, a silent BLDC motor, design the entire unit from scratch, place a 150,000 unit order on day 0 with the factory, and do it all with your closest friend?
you get an air purifier that’s Just the Best :)
say hi to JB! 🥳
Excited to launch India’s best Air Purifier. It’s the need of the hour and we needed one like yesterday. So we designed, engineered and produced it. Almost 2 years of R&D and 100s of hours perfecting airflow.
Here is JB to the world.
Day 49 of building my Idea capture device!
The app is actually taking shape now.
Brought my rough frameworks into the app. Two out of four pages have structure - I also have a couple of features I really like. still working on the UI but it's getting closer to my vision!
Day 48 of building my Idea capture device -
Got the PCB all assembled, a couple of things that need tweaking for it to work properly but good progress!