Interview with Valeria Romanova
Graduated from the British Higher school of Design (Russia/ Moscow) under the program "Industrial design" in 2016.
Designer Interview
22 May 2018
My way of becoming a designer began at the age of 10. At that age I realized that I wanted to become an Product Designer. After school, I started to gradually move towards my goal. During the studies I developed projects for some companies, after a few summer placements I began working in one of the leading studios. In addition to my main work, I try to promote my projects and participate in competitions.
For me "design" is something that meets the needs of users, something that can solve a problem, and also it is something that does not forget about aesthetics.
I do not have anything suitable for the description of "favorite", as I prefer not to limit myself and work with any materials, platforms and technologies.
I don't have any specific moment, because creative insight can happen at any time.
First of all, I take into account the needs of the user, then I focus on the aesthetic part of the project.
Inspiration, concentration, desire to achieve the goal.
Incredible satisfaction, pride and expectation for comments and reactions of users.
Understanding the audience and the problems to be solved.
By how created project meets the required goal.
I think it is an understanding of what you are doing and why, only in this case there will be development and progress for society and environment.
Last was SaloneSatellite WorldWide, Moscow, 2016, the next will be also in Moscow, at Mars gallery.
I would say "No unnecessary moves".
I live in Russia, in Moscow, but I do not feel that this fact influenced my works, except that my country Product Design is at the beginning of its development and there is need to work quite a lot to reach some result.