About

Design brings me closer to humans. We love what’s beautiful, we’re more prone to use something that’s easy to learn, but we’re having a hard time to understand what makes us feel like that.

That’s why design is challenging. You need to empathize, listen carefully, create, explore,  but also test, analyze, and optimize. You have to balance business needs with user needs.

Only programming for weeks on end is too far removed from the human side. Only listening and designing is too much on the human side. Designing for products is in the middle. It has elements from both worlds, which makes it great for my personality.

The passion for design didn’t come from a hidden artistic desire. I was never on the creative spectrum, everything I did was measured and analysed.

It all came from me wanting to create something that looks beautiful and people love. That’s how I discovered that designs involves elements of psychology, arts, engineering, and business.

With all these intersections, there’s just no time be bored.

I also realised that you have to fail a lot. The first iterations are the worse. Sticking with it makes it better and that forces you to understand that there’s no shortcut to good design.

It’s true that I only started to scratch the surface of design. For now, I can sometimes identify and appreciate well-thought design  without understanding all the aspects involved or me being able to recreate it. But one day…

Being able to take something from idea to a working product is empowering. You heard about the IKEA Effect and that’s why you feel proud about that small bookshelf you’ve built.

Design started this spark in me, the desire to build something. Being a designer allows you to sketch, improve, and prototype an idea. You could almost fully use it.

But you can’t.

And at times it’s not the worst. With proper help, there’s someone that will build it for you. But won’t you feel better if you build it yourself?

That’s one reason I love the no-code wave. It empowers people. With time and practice it turns a researcher, designer, data analyst, teacher, whatever, into a builder. Perhaps even a new business owner.

Tools like Webflow, Framer, Zapier, etc. allow me to build something more than a prototype. And I absolutely love them. They take me from the start of the process and brings me all the way to the end where someone can actually use what I’ve created.

Yet, some of the ideas I have require more than a no-code solution. They require the skills of actually writing your own code. So, I guess, I shall learn how to do that one day…