Week 3

It was a short week, but interesting nonetheless. I really liked the video about IDEO. I found it a bit strange and surprising that so many of the people on their staff don't have formal design training. I thought it was kind of cool how one of the team members turned down medical school to work there and I think I would do the same thing in his shoes. I've seen some videos of other firms, most recently in the documentary Objectified, but none of them look as laid back and innovative as IDEO. We're reading Tim Brown's book Change by Design in my other design class this quarter, so I've been getting a lot of exposure to the IDEO way of doing things. I have to say, I would really really love to work there some day, or somewhere with a similar mentality. I had a lot of fun with this week's assignments, especially the survey one. I decided to try to do all of the icons myself, but I ended up having to do a lot of tracing in Illustrator. Still, it was really fun to give it a try.