Designers Look for Trouble
What’s Your Problem?

Designers are an odd bunch. No other discipline (professional or otherwise) spends so much time looking for what’s wrong with everything in the world. If it wasn’t for the designer instinct to turn problems into opportunities for positive change, designers the world over would surely suffer from depression and perish as a result.

To be a designer is to be critical — to find fault for the purpose of improving a product, service, experience, environment or paradigm. The challenge for designers is to temper their critical (negative) nature with an imaginative, hopeful and creative (positive) nature. Temperament is not an easy skill to master, but one that can bring balance to the personal as well as professional life of a designer.