1. What made you pursue a career in product design?
The blend of creative and engineering tyoe disciplines involved with the product design process.
2. Where, and what, did you study?
Brunel. Product Design BSc(Hons).
3. What did you enjoy about this course?
Emphasis on making something work as well as look good.
4. What are the most important things you have learned since starting work, which you did not learn at college?
Efficiency.
5. With hindsight, are you glad you did this course?
Probably, yes.
6. Did you manage to gain any work experience before you left college? How did you get it, and what did it teach you?
Yes. I applied through Brunel. Taught me buckets.
8. Other than specific skills, what do you think makes a good designer?
Pragmatism.
9. What do you enjoy most about working in product design?
My colleagues and the ability to switch between creative and analytical.
10. Are there aspects of the work you don’t enjoy?
Deadlines.
11. If you could go back in time, would you still follow a career in product design?
Probably yes. If not something pretty closely related.
12. Which product design skills do you find you use most?
Sketching.
13. Which part of the design process do you enjoy most?
Sketching.
14. What piece of work are you most proud of?
Tomy Megasketcher.
15. Finally... If you could give just one piece of advice to a student of product design, what would it be?
I don't know enough to offer advice.