My Introduction to Design

Design was not a topic I was familiar with, I knew I wasn’t good at design so I accepted my fate.  But I came to understand that almost all things in life can be learnt especially when you put your heart to it.  The difficult part was first building up the interest.

So what got me interested in design? A lot of things but the turning point was listening to Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson.  Ok, I am a lazy reader so most times if I can get an audio version of a book, especially biographies I get that instead.

Learning about Job’s taste for good design, I too consciously began to get a sense for design; I began to recognize good designs.  Another thing I learnt from Steve Jobs was minimalism.  So uncluttered design became a subject I was interest in.  Truly, “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”.

As with anything I get interested in, I went all out to build my design skills.  The first formal design course I took was with Udacity; "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman. Then like finding gold I stumbled upon Karl Ulrich design course on Coursera; "Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society". This website started as my weekly assignment for the course. After the course I began buying books that would improve my design skills and the things I have learnt are what I hope to share on this platform.  I still search for any course or programme that has the word design in my bid to learn all I can.