"1. Actually, I was meant to be a maker. Destroying every toy I got, tearing up devices, and building them back was a casual curiosity for me.. Than I heard there was a department called industrial design at the arts faculty I wanted to get in, I thought, wow that's me. :)2. At my first years of work life, mostly focused on, coming up new ideas as products like every new grad, I was into inventing stuff at those days.. After 2-3 years, I intended to create stuff according to needs from the briefs I got. There were no wrongs and rights, I only got 1 guide, ---brief---.  After 5-6 years, I was more dominant at projects, started to guide brief makers, for better ones, by questioning their needs, understanding them better.. Most cases all those years, I tried to satisfy the customer, (project givers as R&D, Marketing, Sales, Companies etc) according to their briefs. (I worked at home appliances field around 15 years)3. Research, learn, try, sketch, solve, decide.. After I made my mind for the best solution, 3D modelling and rendering. Work days generally goes like this.4. They don't. And they don't need to. We are the ones, who need to convince them why they need us, and teach them why it is important, according to their products and projects.5. It depends, when we look at to the fields that industrial design needed, dominant gender may change according to products.. I witnessed that for most serious manufactured products, like appliances etc, we can say those fields are male dominant. When it comes to furniture, or more trend related fashion guided products like jewelry or tableware, female designers come forward. 6. Till 2000s, creating nice forms matches to functions were much more important. Than creating products with a story got more attention. After the sustainability and UX got promoted at past 15 years,  creating a product that serves emotions, cultures, health etc got much more important now. 7. Challenging: to find a solution that works for everybody. (to me as a designer, to the investor, to the manufacture side, to the sales side etc.)Rewarding: Witnessing that the final product embraced by end-users as you imagined.8. It depends. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't according to the project I involved. I don't complain, I do my job, try to fulfill what have been asked from me. A Turkish designer who works in China."