Rob Girling: Five Design Questions

The co-founder and principal of Artefact talks about “what if”

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1 min readMay 30, 2013

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Tell us who you are in one sentence.

A lanky middle-aged designer, with a penchant for solving complex problems.

If you weren’t a designer, what would you do?

Architecture… Oh wait, Urban Planning… Oh wait, Game designer…Err err, illustrator?

What is something you wished you designed, either because you love it, or because you feel you could have done it better?

Democracy.

Our ambitious vision for a platform that makes democracy better.

What was your biggest design mistake?

Believing the engineers that said they could deliver what I was designing.

What advice would you give someone entering the design field?

Think every day about how you can make something significant in someone’s life better.

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