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This is design matters with Debbie Millman from design observer.com.

On this program, Debbie Millman talks with Randy J Hunt about his career leading up to his current job as the creative director of

E. Commerce community that sells handmade, vintage, and craft items. Hunt argues

that designers should be able to build what they design. The end result is better and I've is that

it creates more empathy and better communication with the other people have to work with.

Here's Debbie Millman.

Randy J Hunt is the creative director of ETSI, the online marketplace. He's also a guy who loves words.

So he got pretty excited recently when he discovered that

Etsy was a clue in the Washington Post crossword, right there at 66

across. If only, he said, the clue didn't limit us to crafts.

For the record, Edsy is an online marketplace for art, vintage, jewelry, furniture, and clothes.

As creative director, Randy does everything

from telling the Etsy story to designing user experiences.

Randy Jay Hunt, welcome to Design Matters.

Hello.

So, Randy, is it true that you unknowingly take on the accent of people that you're talking to?

It is embarrassingly true.

So if I started talking like that, you'd start talking like that too.

Maybe, that might happen.

It's most glaringly obvious when I get in the back of a cab.

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