To me, design is all about empathy. If I'm designing something for people, I need to go out and hear from those people. It's not about living in my own bubble: it's about community, and listening to those around you.

Steph Hoekstra

My approach to design is something I strive for in everything I create. As a designer I aim to educate both myself and the audience, create and innovate new products or work towards developing the old, and finally to design in hopes of creating a lasting change.

Jennifer Floto

I am motivated by a deep sense of empathy for the viewer. I believe design has the power to influence people's thoughts, feelings and actions. Hence, designers have a social responsibility to the world where we must ensure our work has an ethical and positive impact.

Elizabeth Zhu

I want to use design as a tool to integrate designers' attitude into society. I believe design could achieve some of the conceptual and aesthetic impacts of illustration. Design becomes an attitude and can give birth to new concepts. I want to be in this interaction.

Anna De-Jia Li

I believe design is an efficient platform to integrate important messages into the society, creating a ripple effect. In the journey of a designer, I wish I can produce some impactful work for social good, through which the power of design can be fully manifested in the society.

Clover Chang

I approach every design problem as a learning process. Every challenge I face is a chance to learn and to share my solution to a problem. My design is a combination of functionality and creating an experience.

John MacDonald

Designers have the ability to impact the way people think and make decisions. Communicating through design can show how the right experience creates opportunity for discourse, for social good, and question the way we think towards the next creative experience.

Sandra Han

Design is a place to discover and become aware. As a designer I continue to grow, expand my abilities and improve. As I learn and explore in different case studies, I am continuing to develop new skills and knowledge to help others and the world to expand their understanding.

Christine Trinh

I believe the most powerful messages are delivered through expression of emotions and feelings through design. I use expressive imagery and type to push the audience connect to the design on a deeper level.

Megan Thompson

Design is applicable to any challenge, it has a million different definitions. How people visually absorb information and how they interact. We face a lot of problems today and we’ve gained the ability to solve them as responsible designers.

Angela Ip

Reinterpreting and revisiting pre-existing definitions or elements are what keeps my passion going as a designer. I believe that it is our duty as designers to redefine these materials to cast new light upon them, to experience them like never before.

Hannah Park

Design concerns a practical and visual function just as much as it serves an emotional one. I aim to enhance our experiences and interactions with our environment and each other through eliciting thoughts and feelings of others—the beginning of a conversation.

Laura Pitt

I believe in using design as a method of entertainment. I like to create designs that are whimsical, light-hearted and amusing. It is important to have fun in your work and it makes the job a lot easier and enjoyable when you love what you do and have the ability to have fun. Sometimes, design is taken too seriously and it doesn't have to be.

Stephanie Panier

I believe that design is about creating a meaningful experience. It challenges the way we think, inspires us to act, and sparks discussions. I want to be a designer that creates something that matters. Impacting someone’s life, even in the slightest way is important to me.

Jade Clarke

I think design should be used to improve the world we live in. Whether this be through initiatives such as sustainable packaging or design for social good, designers have an opportunity to positively affect society in the future.

Connor O'Brien

Design is moving at high-speed towards digitization, however, I believe the need for physical interactions will not disappear. Therefore, I am exploring different ways to merge physical and digital experiences to reinforce and augment each other.

Susan Kim

What appeals to me most about design is how it can be applied to any discipline or domain. I see it as an invitation for uniting different spheres through a shared quest to ameliorate. As a designer, I am excited by the opportunity meet new environments.

Lauren Kuzyk

Design is to craft the human experience. Good design is one that is invisible while eliciting emotions, enjoyment, and action. It also helps devise solutions and in making products feel more human. The ability of a piece of design to elicit emotions is what makes it memorable.

Charlotte Lucas

I believe that the process behind an artifact is important as it allows for an in-depth exploration of possible solutions. In my own work, I am constantly utilizing the processes of exploring and creating as a tool to influence and inform my design practice.

Katharine Green

I am a designer who values effective communication and I believe that intuitive form can clear misunderstandings. Therefore, I aim to create products that naturally fit into the physical habits of users and to create products that are nonintrusive to their lifestyles.

Tina Dou

I aim to create experiences to raise the quality of life for people. Digital products only have a short history, and new technologies are unlocking new possibilities for designers to create a memorable experience for users. I would like to join this exciting movement in design.

Tony Yanchen Zhao

My goal is to develop systems and products that will help protect the next generation from social and environmental issues that we face today. Many of my projects focus on sustainable energy, addressing the fear of crime in women, and assisting LGBTQ+ youth.

Chloe Typert Morrison

As a designer, I try to incorporate my drawing and illustration skills as much as possible. Pencil and paper is my preferred medium in the design process and I often try to include these skills in the final design.

Kristen Yeung

I believe design is about seeing the full picture and understanding your audience first through active listening, empathy, and research. Striving for impact, whether through physical or digital mediums, I hope to construct powerful and inspiring solutions driven by purpose.

Emily Wiebe

I’m a designer who likes making helpful experiences. Whether it’s a digital product or a brand, I hope it can in some way, shape or form provide a positive experience. Even if its just for a moment :)

Gary Fung

I love using design to transform problems into unique experiences that I can share with others. By applying design thinking to our everyday lives, we can inspire empathy, cultivate healthy spaces for work and play, and bring people together as a global community.

Jayme Kalpin

Designers have the potential to design spaces where social healing can take place. By understanding users, and how they respond to situations and products, designers are able to help solve minor issues that can make a big difference.

Sara Qarizada

As the academic chapter of my life comes to a close, the next chapter of opportunity opens. Every opportunity comes with its own risk; a risk that I am ready to take on, to make headlines with, to create with, to learn from, and to grow from. The next risk is my next challenge.

Roman Drobot

I believe in design that makes complicated things simple. I love the idea that design can tell a story and simplify the world for an audience. I believe my role as a designer involves making meaning available to the user through the power of visual design.

Acadia Stewart

As a Designer, I believe it is my role to inform the public and as a creative thinker, I have the power to provide information in an engaging way and solve real world problems by creating better solutions. While designing, it is my goal to inform, engage and advance.

Madeleine Rae

Being curious and surrounding myself with new opportunities has been key to my success as a designer. Learning to think outside the box and attempting the unimaginable is what drives my ambition. Embrace your mistakes; it’s what powers you when conquering the next challenge.

Sarah Keast

We often get too fixated on finding a solution to a problem. To me, design is a tool that helps me step back and see things from a broadening perspective.

Justin Veneracion

I believe design has the power to influence the way people think—shaping the way society functions as a whole. As a designer, I have the ability to make a meaningful impact. I want to use design as a tool to drive change, connect people, and inspire new ways of thinking.

Amanda Pape

I try to give a new meaning to design by creating a story with the use of dynamic colour combinations and visuals. Aside from functionality, I believe visual communication plays a very important role for all audiences and I want to be apart of creating that experience.

Dana Neita

Design is about solving problems. Whether it’s tinkering with the tools in front of me or imagining the possibilities that lay beyond, I love figuring things out. Design allows me to discover new ways of constructing pieces that fit together and make something greater as a whole.

Sean Lauten

When I start a project, because I am naturally curious, I dive right into the research and become emotionally invested. Working on social impact projects and using design as a platform for those unheard voices is the most rewarding.

Victoria Cake

I believe in using design as a communication tool. I love exploring the narrative of a story, and helping the audience to visualize it and experience it on a deeper level when they are interacting or viewing it. Design gives people a platform to share their stories beyond words and provoke powerful emotions.

Chelsea Lecompte

Design has the ability to facilitate connection, and connection fosters empathy. I am passionate about using design to connect individuals to education, to resources, and most importantly, to each other.

Danielle Sheahan

One of my strongest interests as a designer is to be a typeface designer. “Make the next type” can be used to describe my thought process. When designing my typeface I start by considering what its purpose will be and how it should be designed before I add my own character to it.

Arman Pourshadi

To me, each design project is an opportunity to learn something new. By researching a problem in detail, I find that the ideal design solution becomes clear. By becoming a designer, I want to be in a position where my work is seen as meaningfulرnothing is more valuable to me than the praise for a job well done.

Joshua Monk

Good design takes users into consideration. Great design plays a much larger role in society than for just consumers. I want to be a part of an industry that not only meets your needs, but meets the needs of a society that is striving to be better than it is.

Nimrit Kaur

Design as a communication tool, to create visual narratives that confront problems of society. I want to build identities that are inclusive and explorative in visualization. Design holds the power to change perspective and create waves in the world we live in.

Ariel Muir

Using the theories of Paul Rand and Rosalind E. Krauss, I am looking at ways design can bridge the gap between art, science,design and our modern society. I am aiming to change the ways we see our world and not how to sell products to individuals.

David Benoit

Using methods rooted in data and behavioural phycology, I gravitate towards playful design that integrates experience with technology to solve intricate humanistic problems. Eager to leverage design in areas foreign to design thinking.

John Kowalski

Design’s been a survival tool for me until I realized how powerful it was. Growing up as a foster kid, soul-searching in Asia during my summers, I see that what I do enables me to tell cross cultural narratives, using creativity in ways unexplored in my Euro-centric education.

My Van Loc

I want to use design as a tool for challenging and questioning what's to come. I want to use our narratives, experiences, and words to shape the future. Design is a force that promises us a world full of new possibilities.

Rana Soliman

I see design as a way to make everyday life more beautiful. Design has the power to make ordinary things in life into a work of art, and I want to be able to use my skills as a designer to create things that can solve problems in a way that can also make people smile.

Miranda Cagas

To be honest, I have no clue where design is going. Trends will continue change and evolve, ultimately repeating itself. I see design as a means to continue to awaken, disrupt, and inspire. Providing a voice to the designer and the audience because we design for all experiences.

Keturah Stephan

To me design is a means of creative expression while bringing clarity to complex ideas. I love visual aesthetic and detailed planning. With design I am able to bring these together. Through design I am able to help others and make a difference while creating something beautiful.

Jessica Brennan

As a new designer to this era, I want to make a social impact through my work no matter what the project entails. I always push out of my comfort zone to achieve new realms of innovation, and develop new solutions. Design has the power to make an impact, and I want to be a part of that.

Emily Michalicka

I believe in pushing boundaries of thought and developing innovative ideas. I brainstorm, ask questions and prototype every angle to achieve the best solution. I am constantly growing and learning with design and keep an open mind to new ideas and opportunities.

Meaghan Gray


I believe we all have a social responsibility to be mindful of what we put out into the world, and of the impact it has. I’d like to stand on the side that makes meaningful changes and improves lives, even if only one small step at a time.



Martina Serafimovska

I believe design is connecting people around us by creating unique user experiences and conversations. What matter in design is how the idea is expressed and how it interacts with your audience. I want to be a designer whose work can initiate conversations.

Eryn Tang

Where I see the greatest potential for graphic design is the social impact it can have. Design can come together with a range of other disciplines to visualize information. When design unites itself this way it has the power to change perception, awaken, inform, and empower.

Andrew J. Carenza

I use design to find fresh solutions to problems in a way that puts people and their needs first. I enjoy finding new methods of expressing concepts that can be visualized and experienced effectively and provide an ideal solution that will make for an effective and strong design.

Manushi Patel

I've always been curious to challenge traditional notions of design and pursue a more conceptual and hybrid approach to the creation process. Through design, I always strive for "more" through a process of constant iteration and reiteration.

Bethany Moy

Through user research and an empathetic approach, I want help solve complex problems people face. In particular, I want to tackle issues that are underrepresented in the design community and create a real impact on the lives of others.

Gillian Wu

I aspire to use my artistic design approach to create emotional work that resonates with people. Design’s commercial involvement brings art to the general public enabling influential work to reach many people from different demographics—hopefully making them think, feel or act.

Kristen Chung

Design should always have trust. I want my designs to be intuitive and to do what users expect. If a user taps a button that says “Save”, the app should save their progress. If the products we design aren't usable, they simply don't work, and the product is inadequate.  

Michelle Vu

There are no limitations to what design can be. I use design as a tool to reimagine, conceptualize, and build systems for spaces and environments. Design gives me the opportunity to create more memorable moments and experiences for people.

Patrick Descartin

So much of what is designed these days is disposable and not meant to last. My goal when designing is to create something that will stand out and resonate with the user in a way that makes them want to keep or repurpose the product in oder to create less design pollution.

Ashley O'Brien

I believe design can have an impact in education. I want to use my design skills to enhance the learning process and make it more fun and interesting for children. To me, design is an opportunity to explore and innovate the classroom environment.

Claudia Corrales

Our work really shines when it’s paired with other disciplines. None of what we do can really have an impact without marketing, development, sales, etc. I think it's important to collaborate with different fields in order to create truly remarkable products in the future.

Justin White

Life is too short to let moments pass you by; so be sure to live fully, always be your best, and to experience the amazing moments life has to offer.

Stephanie Walser

I enjoy creating functional, easy to use, and intuitive interfaces. With new technologies such as AR and VR becoming more popular, I believe the future of digital designers such as myself will be tasked to create content for the next generation of interfaces.

Michael Calcada

Design is about conceptualizing new ways of thinking. When we ask the right questions, we are able to identify and analyze the source of the problem in a strategic, meaningful way. We need to challenge what is considered the norm, and not be afraid to reinvent the wheel.

Ally Hawthorne

The only thing I enjoy more than finding/creating something beautiful is being able to share that moment with others. Discovering new ideas, experimenting with novel approaches, and using design as a vehicle to communicate an experience is what I constantly strive for.

Firas Kauchali

My goal is to use design to solve problems in an exciting way. I enjoy the challenges of approaching ideas that seem impossible. I always begin by looking at the core of a problem, putting myself in the user’s shoes, and giving a creative twist to an effective solution.

Alyah Holmes

Design has the ability to form intersectional connections amongst all facets of life. I seek to design in a way that finds intersectionality through harmonious interaction amongst people and their surroundings.

Aaron Mohr

My work encourages you to play, grow & explore. Allowing you to dwell in the moment, and enjoy the next one. Design allows me to craft things that can put smiles on faces, and make tomorrow better than today.

Hunter Caron

I think design as a way of thinking just completely revolutionizes the way one can go about solving a problem. And as nerdy as it sounds, I think that’s just so exciting—the way lateral design thinking can just break the boundaries of what you thought a solution could contain.

Terameet Kaur

I believe that having a strong visual identity and being able to tell your own story is crucial to any designer. Mix that in with great design thinking plus capturing the perfect moment, and you have the designer I strive to become.

Jeff Bae

As a friend once told me, “art is not necessarily about creativity but about observation”. Most people focus on the ‘creative’ aspect of art but the creative process shouldn't be forced—it should come naturally and I think that is the most original thing that could come from art.

Sharon Yi

One of my favourite things about being a designer is the ability to shed new light on what we take for granted, or on what's difficult to understand.

Saba Sobhani

In my design process, my goal is to maintain a fine balance between functionality and visual impact. I intend to convey depth in simple representation to create memorable and meaningful designs. We all are a contributor to the progression of the world, so I am.

Anam Qureshi

My approach to design is something I strive for in everything I create. As a designer I aim to educate both myself and the audience, create and innovate new products or work towards developing the old, and finally to design in hopes of creating a lasting change.

Jennifer Floto

I am motivated by a deep sense of empathy for the viewer. I believe design has the power to influence people's thoughts, feelings and actions. Hence, designers have a social responsibility to the world where we must ensure our work has an ethical and positive impact.

Elizabeth Zhu

I want to use design as a tool to integrate designers' attitude into society. I believe design could achieve some of the conceptual and aesthetic impacts of illustration. Design becomes an attitude and can give birth to new concepts. I want to be in this interaction.

Anna De-Jia Li