Hi Michael, I hope you don’t mind me reaching out with two questions. As I'm considering my university path, I'm curious about what motivated and influenced you to study (product I guess) design at university and whether you were already skilled at drawing before choosing the school. Additionally, I'm interested in your thoughts on the impact AI will have on design. Do you think it will eventually replace product designers entirely, potentially causing the field to decline? And if so, today would you consider suggesting to your younger self to try to additionally study a bit of something else, engineering for ex., as an extra of design. Thank you Michael and keep up the good work
Hi there. I really liked to draw before design school but I learned a lot more in school. It is hard to say what the future of AI will be but I feel pretty confident that it will not replace design. A lot of what I do is not drawing. In fact drawing is the easiest part. Drawing the right thing, understand the various manufacturing, brand and user demands, and mixing all of those things in a fresh way that is collaborative is what I do. the drawing is just an artifact of that.
