Must Love Humans

When swiping through potential partners on dating apps, it’s common to find people who self-report how important to them their relationship with man’s best friend is. So many of us keep a four-legged friend around, that a person looking for a partner that “must love dogs” is a cliché in the dating scene and the stuff of pop culture. And while various people from business and process methodologies have encouraged tech workers to love problems, not solutions, I would argue that the quality worth “swiping-right” on when considering a career in Product Design, or hiring a product designer is a love for humans.