Dave Smyth

I wasn’t planning on featuring myself on here – there’s something about that that feels a bit gross – but I’m sharing these answers in the spirit of encouraging other designs to talk about their process. Tell us a little bit about yourself I’m an independent designer from the UK. The focus of my work lies somewhere between UX and UI design, accessibility, privacy, ethics and sustainability. I create websites, design systems and digital products, and I enjoy collaborating with developers to finish the work in the browser. What are the first questions you ask at the beginning of every project? I usually start with a set of questions from Dan Mall that I stumbled across a few years ago. It’s a well-rounded set of initial questions that usually gives some useful starting points. I particularly like the “How did you hear about our work? What specifically interests you about it? Any projects that you’re keen on?” question. Working with people who want to work with you specifically, and know…