Lounge S3: Designers

/lounge Season 3 starts in TWO DAYS 🥲

We've got some sick Designers ready to share their earned secrets and all weekend they'll intro themselves by answering:

1. How did they discover Farcaster?
2. Top 3 Design Career Highlights
3. What are they working on?
4. What design work in the wild inspired them this month?

Hi, I'm @Maurice, an interaction designer and carpenter from Germany.

I first discovered Farcaster through the "Moment of Zen" podcast and joined the platform in January this year.

A notable highlight in my design career was my time at an R&D lab for a major German automotive company in Silicon Valley. There, I developed interaction design concepts for future mobility solutions. Much of that work is confidential, but it was a valuable experience.

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Sapiens qui prospicit - Wannabe Polymath. Interested in art, music, history, philosophy and religion.

After school I didn’t really know what career I wanted to pursue. So I did an apprenticeship as a carpenter (apprenticeship are very popular here in Germany. Is a 3-4 year thing). During my apprenticeship I decided that I wanted to to do more creative work and went to design school afterwards.

That’s a unique journey , I haven’t met any carpenters turned designers

Thanks.

In Germany it’s not so unusual for designers to have an apprenticeship before studying.

For example: Dieter Rams, Konstantin Gricic, …