I’d like to think that my enthusiasm with mountaineering overlaps well with my professional skills. Mountaineering is extremely measured. To some, you’re just making your way up a steep slope to a summit, but there are a seemingly unlimited amount of factors that play into your safety and success: Experience with weather patterns, wind, snowpack, route finding, your climbing partners, rope management, equipment choice, acclimatization to the altitude, layering, regular water and food intake, crampon technique, swinging your ice tools with efficiency and more. There is much more to it than people from the outside think, similar to Product Design.
Sure, you’re designing how a digital product is laid out and what it looks like. But there is also the product research, the competitive analysis, the user personas, customer journey maps, service blueprints, user flows, sketches, wireframes, interaction design and more that all go into it, that the end user doesn’t see. Product Designers are passionate about designing the best product they can, so the end users don’t even have to think about how to use it.
