Designers learn to notice the world
The job of designers, innovators and entrepreneurs are to notice the bad things humans get used to and go one step further to fix them.
It's easy to solve a problem that everyone sees. But it's hard to solve a problem almost no one sees. A product designer sees the world the way it really is, not the way we think it is.
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As humans, we become so used to the familiar problems we face that we fail to see them. Designers look at this from a different viewpoint. They learn to notice the little everyday things and try to improve upon them.
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