Cocoia: Design Tea with Sebastiaan de With

Sebastiaan de With is a one man company designing icons and interfaces for some of the big tech companies in the world. He also runs a famous blog and makes the worlds best hamburgers (says Tim Van Damme).

Questions:

- What got you into designing?

- What is your educational background?

- Do you need to be an artist to become an icon designer?

- Do you learn something new every day?

- How was the name Cocoia created?

- How did you get started as a freelance designer?

- What's the strangest proposal you received?

- What advice would you give to beginner icon designers?

- Do you have a favorite secret Photoshop trick?

- What are the most common mistakes in icon design?

- Does anything other than icon design take your fancy?

- What do you think of the future of native applications?

- Do you like traveling and where would you like to travel to?

- How do you make those mythical hamburgers?