I love it when a designer breaks down their thought process. Trying to figure out how a designer arrived at a final solu­tion is often an enigma. The amount of work that goes into design­ing the small­est things are usu­ally com­pletely trans­par­ent to the end user. All they see is that it looks nice (or often just that they don’t notice that it looks bad) and works as they expect it to.

Most of all, I love look­ing at sketches. I find it fas­ci­nat­ing how dif­fer­ent sketches are depend­ing on the designer. It’s excit­ing to see the con­cept in the raw.

Check out Jasper Hauser’s post on how he cre­ated the icon for Disco.

• Jasper’s Blog: Fire Starter