I believe that, just like in cooking, creating something good comes down to two things: understanding who you are creating it for, their tastes, preferences, and needs, and choosing the right, high-quality ingredients. I can say that these two aspects became our main milestones for April: getting to know the people we were designing for better, and selecting the best “ingredients” for our product, in our case, electronic components! At that time, I still didn’t feel that I had listened...

If you've been following along, we've finally reached the point where I secured the funding that allowed me to get started! But that was only the beginning. The next step was validation. Building a startup takes much more than wanting to help people or designing something useful. It means building a business. It involves people, responsibilities, planning, and, above all, accepting that you can't rely solely on your intuition. You can't assume that because you believe in your product, people...

It is difficult to describe what the James Dyson Award represents for an Industrial Design student. It is not just a competition — it is the competition. Or at least, that is how I have always seen it. From the moment I discovered what design was, I knew it was going to be my path. No hesitation, no Plan B. It simply felt like discovering something that brought together everything I had always dreamed of, but had never known how to name. It felt like such a big dream that, for a while, I even...