Who are your Design role models?

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#1

I actually don’t have any designers that I follow or look up to.Well none that come to mind straight away. it’s really strange. I have innovators and leaders but no designers
Who are yours and what are their accomplishments. Any field of design not just UX.
Name them! (Please don’t say Steve Jobs, I will cringe)

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#2

Donald Norman and Steve Krug. Also Jared Spool.

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#3

Nice thanks!
In what way are they your role models? Apart from their books. Do you follow their every moves, have they made achievements that are now on your bucketlist?

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#4

I don’t follow their every moves nor do I base my career goals on their achievements. I just want to make the world a better place through UX. I could care less about achievements and accolades.

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#5

im a bit the same, in terms of individual designers, not so much. But in terms of design groups, i look up to the work done by Disney, Pixar, Studio Ghibli, Nike etc

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#6

So in what way are they role models then? I don’t think you’re considering them as role models but rather interesting individuals

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#7

true, in the digital design era I think one person is hard to look up to, rather groups .Thanks for your input.

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#8

Gotta love Don and Steve. I’ve witnessed Jared being a jerk for no particularly good reason, and it severely impacted my opinion of him.

I’m a big fan of @deprecated, who shows up here on occasion and is an amazing, knowledgeable, and positive professional.

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#9

Oh yeah? What did Jared do?

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#11

:smile:

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