P R O J E C T S				I'm an award-winning, amiable and hard-working designer with plenty of self-initiative who graduated with honours in June 2006 from the BDes Product Design course at Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. I have also studied at Köln International School of Design in Germany, where I gained valuable experience of another culture and studied various other design disciplines including Service Design, which is now my main focus along with sustainability. Immediately after graduation I began working for Vitsoe in London.
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				My main area of interest.. lies in an area I would generally refer to as "Social Design", which includes public services, sustainability, and very user-centred approaches to design which are based on real needs rather than invented desires. I am especially interested in working closely together with the end user and the development of more collaborative and "open-source" design processes to create lasting solutions. Education The GSA course has been described as managing to develop "design thinkers", who use the design process to try to tackle complex problems that are not naturally associated with the profession. The aim of the course is to try and develop an innovative approach to problems and to pass on the transferable skills of user research, idea generation, refinement, testing and implementation. A key factor was working very closely together with the end user and using this to gain the necessary insights.
				Other Interests: My interests are extremely varied, like my design work, and this is because I am naturally quite a curious person. The title of my dissertation (Download: Word Doc.), for which I received a distinction, is "A study of Subjective Well-Being data, the relationship between wealth and happiness, and possible policy implications" and I am interested in the scientific reappraisal of Utilitarianism, especially the work of Daniel Kahneman. I love socialising and dancing (even though I'm not very good at it), philosophy, politics, photography and Buddhism. My favourite word: I love the word "Why?" because I believe that everything should be questioned and not assumed. Everything can be improved in some way and many people in our society have a tendency to accept things without having actually given them any real thought.
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