I met Hannah Sellers through the head of the architectural science depart- ment in the School of Architecture and Manufacturing Science at Western Ken- tucky University. My blog is about the interconnections in the elds of design, specically user-centered design and the creative processes designers undertake in their elds. For this blog series, entitled “Designers in Process,” I introduce the reader to someone who is studying in a eld of design or technology and try to showcase the detailed thinking involved in the creative process. Ms. Sellers is a student majoring in Architecture and also getting a minor in interior design, and she is someone like me, who places value on the design process from a user-centered approach. But what you will notice if you meet her, is that she is someone who despite her incredible workload, puts you at ease; and this trait could also be said to be true throughout her philosophy of design. Novel Approaches: A great example of the creative process she might undertake is represented by when she was asked to design a hypothetical solution to a new building for the school of Architecture (when she was in Studio II). Since, for her, the design process needs to begin with an inspiration, and she couldn’t nd any similar types of schools, she chose a novel approach and started folding paper: I took a piece of paper and I didn’t wrip it but I cut it then I started folding things and what I came up with, that gave me the whole idea of the project and where I wanted to go with it. This perhaps origami inspired approach is just one of many ways Ms. Sellers has gone about design- ing things. Another way is by incorporating many design concepts into her model, such as mixing dierent themes even from dierent centuries. In this way, she overcomes design problems by doing something dier - ent each time, perhaps something that has not been done before: I like to mix traditional with eclectic, I like to mix modern with colonial – you know I don’t like just one particular style, and my process involves more than one style typically. And when I look for inspi- rations I don’t technically go for buildings or architecture . . . I’ll look at storefronts of clothing compa nies, and the displays that clothing companies come up with can also lead to an inspiration for a design that I’ll do for a project. Inspirations: The storefronts idea was particularly interesting for me, as I wondered how a store-front could inspire an architectural design. But as she explained, it isn’t the store-front per se, but the inspiration. One inspirational store that inspired her and informed her work in a current project for Interior Design was the store Anthropologie, done by EOA architects out of New York. As she explained, it’s the ability of the store to fashion object metaphors out of random odds and ends that gives her a sense of how they create: “Putting the ease in place” by Will Kotheimer