A few months ago the director of UtrechtInc, who was reviewing my graduation proposal, asked me: “Why do you want to do this? It’s a good thing to write down your motivation.”
I’ve never been more motivated to do something. In the past four years I’ve studied Mediatechnology, studying and experiencing new media engineering and design. Before the summer break I’ve been busy with improving my interface design skills, by building the NOOT GUI. As explained during my talk for Design By Fire Café, during the process of designing the interface I realized it would be a nice business venture to expand my prototype into a product. Since the next phase of my professional education will be graduating, I wrote a proposal to graduate self-employed building a new application for mobile phones.
The app I’ll be building will be able to store ideas. Think of photo’s, tags, soundbites etc. combined into a little package. The focus of the app is to keep those ideas alive, by letting them return in your mind. Say bye-bye to the endless stream of bookmarks you don’t read.
That’s not it. Because that’s content, still no motivation. Then I realized, considering what I like most, that “this is it.” It’s the final project to show the world what I’m capable of. My own personal launch pad. If this is what I want to do the rest of my life, it better be a terrific start.
Therefore, “Hello World.” Not only because it’s a first, perhaps even more because it’s a hello – hello world, this is who I am and this is what I do.
