Profile: Alina Avdonina

About Alina Avdonina : I am the designer of my life. Dozens of my teachers led me to this idea: the family in which I was born, the culture in which I was brought up, the authors of the books I read, my husband and son, dozens of teachers at school and university, coaches, mentors, professors, scientists and others - dozens of people whose ideas I remember, the words and expressions of which I use every day. I’m a product of that society, the fruits of which I shamelessly use) My school certificate has one four in geography, the other five, I have a musical education in the dombra class (Kazakh folk string instrument), a diploma with honors from a graphic designer, I have been working for 8 years in digital design. And only recently I realized that I'm really interested in product design. After all, it opens up a lot of opportunities for testing the qualities and skills that I have acquired in my entire life. To create a product (whether it’s a mobile application, a brand book, a chair, a security system) you need to: 1) find the experts of this product 2) understand your goals (what is this product for and what it solves for) 3) establish communication with all participants in the creation of the product 4) to establish communications with those who will use the product 5) to select tools that can materialize this product 6) to monitor how this product lives. What I can do well today from all this is point 5. What I have been actively learning in the last six months is all the other points. What I am better than the rest, I do not know. I hope the rest will tell me about it when it really becomes interesting for me to find out, provided that I establish good communications with them)