I believe the best designers are the best consumers. As taste is an acquired skill, so is consumption; in all its cultures (minimalistic, modern, bohemian..etc). As long as the consumer is not falling for trends but rather embracing them.

I’m a very self-aware user and a lazy one too. It doesn’t matter if I’m a tourist navigating the metro system in Paris, utilising a sports watch, or surfing a website/application, I always seek to juice all the experience out of the medium to use it with maximum functionality and minimum effort. Experiencing its “bliss-point” as I refer to it.

In consequence I instantly detect pain-points.

Once so, I easily factorise them and effortlessly come up with outside-the-box type solutions that are comforting to the lazy user, designer and developer.