What Web Designers Do:
Web designers are artisans and true digital creatives.
Steve Jobs famously said, “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” The best web designers know that good web design is nearly invisible but utterly delightful. Their job is to make the websites and mobile applications they work on such a pleasure to use that you find yourself addicted, to make the buttons on screen look so delicious, you’ll want to lick them.
If you love art, beauty, people, fashion, and thinking about how someone lives, day-in-day-out, with one of your creations, then you will excel at web design.
Come design our collective digital future!
- Title: Partner & Designer
- Company: Funsize
- Where: Austin, TX
- What I Do: I’m a self-taught designer and I run a local mobile product design studio with my husband. (Yes, I’m really around my husband 24/7. No, it’s not as crazy as it sounds!)
- Why I Love It: I’m attracted to design not just for the pretty colors but for everything that goes on behind the scenes. I am intrigued by the way design ties into the human psyche and how a product you design can completely change human behavior. Aside from wanting to make things look beautiful, design gets me really excited when I know that what I’m working on is a product I believe in and that it has the potential to improve peoples’ lives.
- How I Got Here: I started with an internship at a digital agency. I was learning so much at my internship that I eventually dropped out of college. I soon moved to New York City where I spent time in the ranks at well known agencies, and discovered my deep interest in mobile design. Anthony, my husband, and I were both working on mobile products separately and realized that we could do what we were doing separately, together, and do it smarter. It’d give us the ability to create a lifestyle balance that we’ve dreamed of without the constraints of being employed. That’s when Funsize emerged.
- Advice For Aspiring Designer / Developers: Many people often refer to their full-time jobs as “stable”, but how stable is it if you can’t control your own destiny? You can be fired at any given moment for no specific reason. Carve out your own destiny and create your own stability; don’t let others do it for you.