About Me

Hello!

  I am a recent graduate interested in product design. I really enjoy well made products that feel like they were made with purpose and built for the long term, however, if discarded won’t last forever. I’m tired of all the cheap products sold from discount stores, which never work well, rapidly deteriorate and are quickly thrown away. The worst however are one-time use products such as plastic grocery bags, Colgate Wisps, Swiffers, and anything disposable but not recyclable.  Although my future is hazy, I’d like to work for a product design firm to begin to help shape a better future. I also think that Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things is a great book that all designers/engineers should read.

 

  In my free time I try to learn as much as I can about the methods behind good designs. I’m also interested in usability since my parents are constantly having trouble with their computers (mac’s). This has helped me learn how to better explain functions and concepts, as well as taught me that the end user could be anyone with any level of experience. I’ve also read The Design of Everyday Things which mostly states obvious aspects of design, however, there are some hidden insights.

 

  I’ve also started to design a non-for-profit drupal powered website titled Innovate For Tomorrow that I hope will some day become useful for engineering, architecture and design students.  The idea is to create an online community that could propose problems to important issues, and then vote on them, allowing the problems most worth solving to ‘float’ to the top.  The most important problems could then be used to create competitions.  The winning ideas would then be built using the sites advertising money (this hinges on it’s success), and installed in the location for which it was designed.  The design concept in html can be found here, and the drupal site can be found here.

 

  Also, here is my résumé, and my email is jon@jonrwilson.com