I have been thinking a lot recently about what is the next step in my life, I hope it’s in design, but really it’s more luck than anything else if the company that I wanted to work at has no openings then how can I get a job there. then I think about what is expected of us in class now or in the future where we end up? the bare minimum? to get the job done? this is something that until now has always played on my mind, but today in class we where discussing processes of design and how to design for a persona, the unit I’m working on at the moment there is three personas to cater for the details don’t matter but me and some other students where having trouble designing for all three. so my lecturer said to “focus on one that will be easier” despite the brief wanting all three to work as good as the next. The problem is that if a lecturer ses to take the easy root then most will follow. How I see it is life isn’t easy and it won’t be anytime soon so the easy road isn’t an option.
since I was a kid, I was taught if you can choose the easy road then that’s fine, but if the other road isn’t easy, but has the potential to be something more then that should be the root to go down.
what I’m trying to say is that just coz something is easy doesn’t mean its the best way to go and that way is rarely going to be fulfilling. so pushing your abilities and pushing yourself is how something new and something with the potential to be great is born. With this is my head I have no got new view on what I’m going to do with my life. live it one day at a time, start each day to create something with the potential to change the world, it may sound cheesy but with this mindset, I think that I will push out more creative ideas and more designs which stand out which, after all, that is what employers want!
Mearsy 