In this podcast, Michael Rivero, a New York Times best-selling author and CEO of Rivero Global, shares his thoughts and insights on a wide variety of topics that are not typically addressed in the more mainstream media or corporate forums.
He’s not exactly a comic book-in-progress, but he can write a podcast about why some people are so obsessed with “design” for the sake of “design.” This is the kind of stuff that would be a great way to get a sense of how a new era has come than creating a new genre.
In his podcast, he talks about how he has no problem with being called a “designer in a box,” as he views design as a part of a bigger equation than just “design.” He talks about how his design work is very much focused on helping people to solve their own problems, rather than just being a tool to help solve problems for others.
We are obsessed with design for the sake of design. This is the kind of stuff that would be a great way to get a sense of how a new era has come than creating a new genre.In his podcast, he talks about how he has no problem with being called a designer in a box, as he views design as a part of a bigger equation than just design.
And the rest of the podcast is a great talk about the world around design and how it can help us solve our own problems. There are a lot of topics, ranging from the benefits of designing for the sake of design to how we should all stop using tools like Photoshop to make something that looks like a picture and make it into something that looks like a picture. He also touches on the idea of design for the sake of design and the importance of self-awareness.
This talk was featured on the podcast’s website on Friday, April 15, 2012.
Rivero is a great thinker. He’s a designer too, but he’s also a designer who’s been trying to make his own life better, to show us the benefits of this design philosophy. He talks about the benefits of design for the sake of design, why it matters that you’re making it, and what he does to keep it at the forefront.
It seems that with the current interest in design for the sake of design, many companies are looking into doing something that imitates the principles behind the design. Some companies even go so far as to say the reason they built their buildings is because they were designed to be designed. This philosophy is called “user-centered design,” and is becoming increasingly popular.
User-centered design (UCD) is a tool that helps organizations design the things they want to do, not the things they need to do. Like everything else, user-centered design requires an understanding of what the user or customer is trying to accomplish.
The idea of user-centered design is that people are using products to achieve their goals. This is a way of thinking about design that I would say is much more appropriate to the way we interact with software than the traditional approach of design that we all learned in school. We used to design products to maximize our own happiness, and now we design products to satisfy the goals of our customers. UCD is a tool to help organizations design products to their customers, not the other way around.
