[Chapter 3] The tragedy that forged my determination to become a product designer

The way to being a product designer has not been easy for me and, in this Chapter, detailed the one that has been, until today, the hardest moment of me life and in which my personality and determination were forged over fire get the dream of that child who dreamed of making "drawings in the computer".

After the conversation with my mother in which I was fully urged to look for a Different path of my future to which she had conceived for me. I went on the end of the course with my school. In that suitcase he wore all the desire to Fiverty, many uncertainties regarding my present academic and a great determination as to what I wanted to dedicate to me when I was older.

The main feature of a product designer

I remember on that trip conversations with friends in which they tried to explain what That I was passionate about a language that they could understand. I remember with a lot honey a small metaphor that occurred to me at that time that, Seeing it with perspective, he explained very well what was within me and I moved.

If you had to highlight, today, the most relevant aspect to take into account Facing being a product designer is empathy. To dedicate yourself to this profession, many skills are required from which I already detailed in the blog posts but, If one stands out above all that is empathy. To be a good Product designer you have to have a huge capacity to empathize with the different parts involved in each project but, for not diverting ourselves from the subject, this You can read in this other post.

Counting my ideas since childhood

After this little parential, let's go back to conversation with my friends. I remember that, at that time, video games began to be increasingly elaborate and, What told my friends was that, beyond making drawings for those video games, what I would like to end is for each video game to adapt to The tastes of each of the people who played the game.

They looked at me quite weird when I told them this idea but still, I followed trying to make them understand "imagine that Bruno and Javi buy you video game, but you Bruno, you like basketball and you Javi, you like the soccer. The game should evolve based on your decisions to be A FIFA or to be an NBA Live (NBA2K of the time) do you understand? "

I remember how in my head I saw it meridianly clear and, today, I think that the example of that dreamy child explaining to his friends what He moved inside remains a great example of what, for me, is a design of product, which implies innovation and how one feels a being I miss when you tell others your ideas and, what is that exercise of Empathy about dimensioning that anyone who wants to dedicate to this has to do since, you have to be able to deal with the needs of many others and be able to frame The ideas within these needy.

I returned from that trip with a sack of experiences and a lot of years of life promoted by laughter with my friends. Laughs that will turn in tears a week after.

The accident that changed my life

While going down with my whole family to spend a few days to the beach house, we suffered a tragic car accident in which, my greatest reference, my mother, He died . . . The rest of my family survived but we were all marked from that day both psychological and physical.

I do not want to extend in this misfortune, but it is necessary to understand what I mean when I say That, this circumstance, marked the rest of my life and cyntage who I am today in life And also in my work. At that moment the world collapsed, I still remember being In Torre Cárdenas the Hospital de Almería and as my sister Bea gave me the news. I still feel the pain so big that I felt at that time and, Even today, more than 20 years later, I get excited while I write these words and remember those moments. "I am a child and now What am I going to do . . ? "I repeated my sister.

How to transform pain into determination?

Those moments were very hard but I still have them just as present today, day I remember that day and how I felt. Emotional to me the pain and uncertainty. Physically, my arm hurt horrors and my leg left prevented me from moving easily (and thanks) in the rational my head He began to change.

I felt guilty for the fact that my mother had left this world being aware that his son was going wrong in studies and, with the most normal Concern about my future. But it was, of that feeling, where I took from even more strength to get ahead and become what I set out to be When he was a child full of dreams he had, from that moment and to Today, the duty and obligation to honor who so worried about Take it all.