My design Career

I want to be a designer because I love exploring new ideas and thinking of how to create a better life and experience for living. I always passionate to design things, playing around with paper, and other materials since I was little and my parents told me that I am such a creative kid because I can imagine transforming simple materials into something useful and beautiful. As I finished high school, my parents didn’t prefer me to do deign though, being born with the Asian parents they wanted me to do something like engineering or science because they think that it would be easier to get a job in that area so they wanted me to do IT before because I was also good at it. But when I studied IT I really didn’t enjoy it and it was really frustrating because I had to do something that I don’t enjoy. So then I told my parents that I want to be a designer instead, before my parents asked me to think twice and finally they let me. I have chosen to study in UNSW because at first UNSW is very popular in my country (Indonesia) so everyone who comes from Indonesia always wanted to get into this university. I have this pride to be a UNSW student and as I looked through the handbook, I think industrial design is the most suitable design I should do. I always love buying products, and a good product really brings pleasure for the users and that is why I want to be a product designer because I want to bring the new innovation to the society in which may improve their life experience. Looking at past designers who have been successful, it really motivates me to do better from times to times because I want to follow their career and I want to show it to show it my parents that I can have my career in design. I can’t imagine my future for this moment yet, If God’s willing I would love to work as an industrial designer but then I might also learn other design (graphic or web) design and see what opportunities that comes up. Many people told me that an industrial designer would also make a lot of money, it is true in one sense but it is really not what drives me to be an industrial designer. I chose industrial design also because it has varieties of things that we can learn as well such as marketing, how to do research and statistics which will also support my design career and these subjects are the subject I love as well. I hope that I can do my best in this course and pass the course with satisfactory results.