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1. Mine would be: Don’t forget a designer can do anything. Your skill is solving problems, and there are trillions of them in thousands of industries.

   Posted by Jeff Ferzoco on 07/29/09 @ 6:56pm #

1. Wow… this is quite possibly the best blog post I’ve read (watched) all year.

   I think its really easy as a designer to fall into the trap of making things look ‘cool’ or ‘pretty’. Falling in love with ‘the solution’ before the problem is really parsed out helps no one! Thanks for the reminder always try to fully understand things before solving the problem!

   Posted by Niki Brown on 07/29/09 @ 6:58pm #

1. Joshua Porter’s advice concerned me until he got to the part about focusing on something more interesting once you get credibility.  Good plan.

   Posted by Ida on 07/29/09 @ 6:59pm #

1. 1. Sketching is to design lime water is to your health. You can’t live as a designer w/o either of them.
   2. Sure we all know to get to know your “users” but do more than “research”, constantly explore your world & always incorporate that into your constantly growing well you draw from besides your “research”.

   Posted by Dave malouf on 07/29/09 @ 10:07pm #

1. Be weird and have a good sense of humor about it.

   Posted by Kevin M. Scarbrough on 07/30/09 @ 12:50am #

1. Kolko nailed it. If you’re going into design (or any field that you love) you need have endless passion for you work.

   Posted by Joshua Kaufman on 07/30/09 @ 12:55am #

1. Mine would be: Don’t make plans, just do. People who are making plans will be writing stuff they’ll never do. Just start! Or like the Nike slogan: “Just do it” Don’t be affraid… + I have to agree with Kevin M. Scarbrough: Be weird (or just be funny), a good sense of humor is a must (no one hires a jerk…).

   Posted by Bas on 07/30/09 @ 11:03am #

1. Not every project is award winning, if it solves the problem for the client it was successful.

   Posted by Michelle B. on 07/30/09 @ 11:07am #

1. Great opinions, great people. This is one of my favorite articles already.

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1. This has been wonderful! As an aspiring designer, and knowing a few of you, I’ve taken all of these words to heart. Thank you for sharing your stories. Tot ziens!

   Posted by Lizzie Harr on 07/30/09 @ 1:38pm #

1. Good stuff!  Here is my addition— Learn how to tell a great story.  Insightful research, impressive design, and solid validation are critial to a successful product but to see the light of day YOU need to be able to tell a compelling story about your work that engages, excites, and informs.  That is what will persuade your client away from the status quo.  In the end successful designers are also great pitchmen (and women).

   Posted by Wade Burch on 07/30/09 @ 1:38pm #

1. Don’t use the word user, or client.
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   Posted by Michael on 07/30/09 @ 1:40pm #

1. Inspiring words. I might also add a quote from my professor and dean of the school of design at SCAD. He said, “For designers, there is no such thing as problems, only opportunities.”

   Posted by David Shapiro on 07/30/09 @ 3:38pm #

1. Mine would be : Eat it, Do it, And Love It As Part Of Your Life!

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1. “Mine would be: Don’t forget a designer can do anything. Your skill is solving problems, and there are trillions of them in thousands of industries.

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1. I would say, try as many different experiences as possible, inspiration and ideas come from all sorts of places.

   Posted by Wain on 07/31/09 @ 4:58am #

1. Brilliant.

   Here’s my advice from one design newbie to another:

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   Cheers!

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1. Terrific post!

   Mine: Consider the possibility that the user problem you’re trying to address isn’t real. Verify the existence of the problem, and identify new ones, through field research.

   Posted by Jeff Rankin on 07/31/09 @ 10:58am #

1. A great post with valuable advices. Thank you!

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1. A designer is a creator, and it takes a lot to be able to create ask the man upstairs.

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1. Designer are flexibility and creativeness. Thanks for this wonderful post.

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1. I think Mine would be: Don’t forget a designer can do anything.

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1. A designer is an artist, and according to what their customers want where applicabkle and to translate knowledge and skill into what someone else wants takes insight….

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