My Design Career

I want to be a designer because I want to make things that will improve people’s lives. As a designer, I think our job is not just to make something that is aesthetically pleasing. Designers find solutions to address problems, designers innovate, designers inspire and vice versa, got inspired. From my learning experience, I know that our tasks as a designer is not just to meet diverse customer needs but we also have to consider human emotions as well as the experience resulted from using the design objects. Therefore, the challenge of being a designer is to create something that get its function, beauty, and at the same time gives users a fun filled experience.

I have learned design officially for only several months. Before I got myself enrolled to Industrial Design at UNSW, I graduated from Uniprep UNSW Foundation in my home country, Indonesia. I went there for 6 months to learn the basic foundation of design. That’s actually the first time I got the chance to get the idea of what design is like because unlike most high schools in foreign countries that have Design class in their school, most high schools in my country do not offer design as one of the subjects. In the short 6 months of foundation I learned mostly about the elements and principles of design. Some of the projects were about topography, space, wearable design and light design. I found design really interesting and love it ever since.

While deciding which design I’ll take in uni, I managed to get to know to industrial design. It is not a ‘favourite’ major in my country even most people I talked to didn’t know what industrial design is. They are much more familiar with product design which is actually pretty much the same thing. When I browsed through Internet and found out what industrial design is, I was quite impressed that actually industrial design is everywhere around us. After getting a better understanding of what industrial design is about, I decided to choose industrial design as my bachelor degree.

To be honest I’m not that confident for what lies in the future but certainly I hope my design career will goes well and have a positive progress.