Being A Designer

What is a designer?

At first, I thought a designer is a person who designs something. 

It's not totally wrong. But being a designer is much huger than that. 

This is what I got from my interview this morning.

A designer is the one who stands in the front row.

The one that people will look at, and whose work will be the one that people will look at too.

A designer doesn't dress up like others.

When you become a designer, you have to be extraordinary. A designer of course won't look the same as an accountant. Just smart formal look like that. But it also doesn't mean you have to have a long hair with many unique (I mean weird) things. It's just that you have to stand out among others and have your own style. Be different.

A designer sees things differently

Even just watching a movie, a designer will have different point of view from other non-designers. We will see it maybe in the cinematography way, the story line, the way they take the pictures the angle, and everything. We see and observe.

A designer must have a great presentation skill

It's just same like selling a product. When we sell our design we have to convince people with our ideas. We must have a courage to voice our thoughts. Also to clearly explain what is in our mind. 

A designer must have a speciality

What will make companies want to hire you? You have to have something special that you are really good at. Either your presentation skill, concept, or whatever. Something that differs you from your course mates. 

So far... that's all. 

But I'm sure there are still much more things that we can learn to really be "A Designer".