Oscar Lee's Blog

Sustainability, democratic, equality are all important aspects of consideration while designing new product. Designing a product that is social responsible is one of the most basic criteria. Helping disable people to improve their lives by either improving their social status, or design that help to end poverty are all social responsible design. Again it's a balance between form and function that best deliver the desire result. From the six episodes of 'Designing for Life', it inspired me to take responsibility as an industrial design student. It's our duties to bring better equality to all demographic users. It's our duties to bring equality and sustainability into the society and our next generations.
It inspired me to treat every decision regarding design seriously. From a simple line to a project, we should treat the project with respect, it's not only a task for handing in your work on time in university. It's more like a commitment to a particular life style. You have to embrace this life-style in order to develop a socially responsible philosophy. It's only through this personal philosophy looking at the world you can produce a product that have positive impacts on the world. Through this process, a person can truly be considered as a designer and this journey can take years to master.
Watching the contestants getting eliminated each week takes me back to my first year studio. I start to thank all the lectures who gave us the harsh judgement, all the almost seem to be impossible tasks. It's lucky that we have the leisure to learn some of the basic knowledge in university rather than learning on the work-site. Reality is harsh and I don't think you will be given a second opportunity in real life work field. Therefore, it's much matter to have someone yielding at you in uni here rather than making mistake than can cost you your job, massive finical lost or even worst of all, a human life. Once again, all lectures that comment on my study journey, thank you!