/lounge Season 3: Designers is 
✨ officially ✨ live 😮‍💨

The first prompt is a simple one, but by no means is it simple to answer. 

How did you become a Designer?

I started as an 11yo by learning GIMP on fanmade forums on my crappy old laptop that needed 5 minutes and a coffee break before starting up.

I've never been good at drawing. I didn't know what design was, much less what Product Design was. I just liked to find a good way to make pictures look good.

I designed tons of pfps and web banners, trying to understand how blending modes and filters worked, and eventually I was good and I was an official "Graphic Designer" for the 1st italian Pokemon forum community.

I then nitpicked my university course and invested a lot to get in, and graduated as an Interaction Designer. By then I knew broadly about Graphic Design, Motion Design, Physical Computing, Product Design, Sound Design, Video Editing and Cinema, Print, I had basic coding skills: I was a Designer.

I love having such a large skill toolbox, it helps me analyze the world from different perspective, and not only considering 1 vertical skill.

Experiment, learn and design!