Being able to create something and make something that a lot of people find helpful or useful or makes them smile at the kind of scale that designers are able to do, is pretty magical and a pretty amazing opportunity.

Designers for a long time were relegated to billboards or designing books which obviously quite some time ago had an immense scale, but given the way that designers are now able to design technology is pretty insane historically. The size of the opportunity is something that I find fascinating. If you look at the history of technology in the world there hasn’t been a period in time where you could go design something and it be used by millions or hundreds of millions of people. To have a lot of opportunities for different designers to work at that scale is fairly new. It’s not like there’s 5 designers or 5 places where you could go to do that. There’s a lot of places for designers to go do that at this point in time and I think it’s a really great opportunity. I guess I could’ve pulled the shoot at some point and gone and done industrial design or some kind of mechanical engineering, but the scale of usefulness that you can create is pretty powerful right now as a designer. I think that’s a great opportunity to have.

Nathan Garvie.