“A day IN THE LIFE OF designer”
Denis Bozhinoski October 21, 2025
The year was not written anywhere - but you could feel the future.
Cars didn't hum anymore.They whispered.
Screens floated silently in the air, adjusting to the face looking at them.
Everything was efficient - frictionless, smart and fast. Everything was fast. Maybe too fast for humanity.
01
The feel of the future
Deni was a designer in this new world. he didn’t design brochures or posters anymore — he designed moments.
His job was to shape the emotional flow of public spaces: how a street should make you feel when you walk through it, how light could react to your mood, how silence could become part of design. It sounded beautiful.
But lately, Deni felt something missing.
02
The human
One day, during a city walk audit, he saw an old man struggling to cross a street.
The crosswalk lights changed automatically — based on algorithms predicting crowd flow — and the system didn’t “see” him in time.
The cars waited, impatient but silent, their engines running on invisible current.
The man finally made it, but something inside Deni cracked open. That silent night, he sat by his wall-screen and opened a new project.
03
When creativity wins
He decided to design a system that didn't strive for perfection - but for grace.
A city that would adapt not only to efficiency, but also to quality of life and humanity.
He added a feature that allows people to stop time in a small way - a button at the pedestrian crossing marked "Share a Moment."
“Share a Moment”
It started with a button.
Small, glowing, and almost easy to miss — placed quietly on a city corner. Someone pressed it once, unsure of what would happen.
The button lit up softly, humming like a heartbeat. Across town, another light answered — a pulse of color, a gentle reminder that someone else had also pressed their button, somewhere, sometime. Two strangers connected, without ever meeting.
Soon, more appeared. In parks, near bus stops, by playgrounds. Children pressed them and laughed when bubbles floated out of the air; artists pressed them to leave colors on a shared digital canvas; singers used them as a cue to hum their favorite song to the street.
Each button gathered moments — stories, sketches, sounds — and turned them into something visible on nearby walls. A living, breathing artwork built by everyone.
It wasn’t about technology anymore. It was about remembering that design can create space for emotion, connection, and hope.
We called it “Share a Moment” — a design that didn’t ask for attention, only presence.
People started pressing that button — not just for others, but for themselves.
Parents held it so their kids could dance.
Friends waited together, laughing in the glow of the amber light.
It became a small ritual of connection in a city obsessed with speed.
When Deni presented his work at the Global Design Forum, he said:
“ The future I want to design isn’t faster. It’s more caregiving and loving.”
Silence filled the room.
Even in a world where everything moved at the speed of light — his words made time stop.
The future won’t just be built by technology.
It will be built by the hearts that choose to design for people first.
Because in the end, progress means nothing — if no one feels at home in it.
“ The future will belong to the ones who design with empathy.”
