
More Designers Need to Think Like Engineers
It’s no secret that the personality types that tend to go for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines tend to be different from the types that go for the arts. Then there’s design. Design fields are supposed to present an intersection of both STEM and more artistic vocations, and thus should appeal to those with an appreciation of both. But in practice, it all really depends on how these fields are marketed and how they are perceived by aspiring designers. Industrial design for example, as a rule attracts a different set of people from architecture or graphic design and so on. But the design industry on the whole seems to be attracting people with the wrong mindsets. In the case of UCreative’s readers, and YouTheDesigner’s in particular, most of us here work in visual design-related fields or are interested in them. We’ve based this observation on the subjects of posts that generated the most buzz over the past four years, as well as through your responses — or lack thereof — on each post. It’s pretty apparent that most of our followers lean towards the artistic, intuitive side of things. This isn’t always a bad thing. We need to continually push ourselves into