Open any suggested reading list for designers and you’ll come across The Design of Everyday Things. It’s packed with insights and aha-moments for product designers.
Over the next few months, as I read the book I’ll be summarising the insights I pull from every chapter, hopefully to benefit you, but mostly to help me retain some of the information.
In Chapter 1 of The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman invites us to view failure with a fresh perspective- it is rarely user error that causes products to fail, but instead, it’s poor design.
In late 2020 my friends Jonas Skutka and Lina Dilly approached me for help with their new business. Over November and December, I poured a lot of work (and a lot of procrastination) into developing a logo and brand guideline set for Alerce Environmental.
This September I put a lot of time into a birthday gift for someone very special to me. I started illustrating 15 sentimental moments in Procreate, then used the screen on the iPad to transfer the illustrations into a beautiful coil book I found….
A collection of 16:9 images for your viewing pleasure. I’ve been illustrating in Procreate since the start of 2020, and through the lockdown it became my tool of choice for Digital Illustration. Everything here was made with Procreate on my iPad Pro.
Could we have asked for a better weekend before lockdown?
Doubtful.
On the last weekend of February…
A collection of 16:9 images for your viewing pleasure. Everything here may have been conceptualized on paper, but was made solely with Adobe Illustrator.
Out of the dozens of photos I took, these are the best three I have from a 2-day hike to Hundstalsee. In summer 2019 my friend Marta and I made the trek to the lake. We’d seen pictures of it, and knew it was somewhere in Tyrol…
The Aran Islands are a collection of three barren, rocky islands off the coast of Galway. There are roughly 1200 Irish speaking inhabitants across all 3 islands. Fortunately for travellers, English is very commonly spoken on the Islands as…
Wintertime in Ireland can be especially dreary. The mornings are usually overcast and foggy, and thanks to the coastal climate the days are bone-chillingly cold.
In the winter of 18/19, I lived in Clontarf…