For me I was less curious about what I was than what most designers would result with. The broad idea of what a visual designer is and the kind of work they do allows for many personality types to take the title. Recently my designer boyfriend and I got into a little fight about what I do and if what I’m interested constitutes as real design. And big news fellow Judging Thinkers. It does.

And what do I do? I help other people communicate their ideas and better cater to their audiences visually and interactively. I do a bit of research, but I also love to create vectors, make art, write, and compose music.

However, for me designing to solve a problem and designing as almost an art form are two fundamentally different things. It’s just much harder for me to straddle the midway point, designing something totally unique and useful. A cool object or service. Industrial Design… that sells or realizing beautiful designer web app. These things elude me.

I’m a storyteller. And I think my personality type and the way I see and perceive the world is important if not essential for this goal. Being able to remove myself from as many preconceptions as I consciously can, yet also being able to tune into the feelings and mood of the world, the economy, the story, the people involved. This is what I do.