Alain: On my side, I am more coming from the Aerospace and Defense industry, so the design process is a little bit different. I love, in fact, to do other things than classical ones. I am already happy when I can find some time trying to develop new things. And for me, if I look at my inspiration, it's more linked to Aerospace and Defense, innovation and other stuff coming from movies such as Star Wars and Marvel, maybe, and it's clearly a good way to find new ideas, futuristic ones sometimes, but keeping in mind that we are trying to create some new product with innovation and good design for the customer.
Felix: Yeah, from my side. So in my job at Dassault Systèmes, we consult customers from many, many different industries, basically from all the industries. Of course with a little focus, I would say, on the Automotive and Aerospace industry, but also High Tech industry, Consumer Goods. So I feel that I have quite a good insight of how the design process looks like in the different industries. That's also something that I enjoy quite a lot at my job here at Dassault Systèmes. And I would say that, definitely, creativity plays a big role in all of the design processes in all of the different industries. You want to create products that don't look like the products that we used and have seen, I don't know, several years ago.
As a designer, you want to invent the future and shape the future in a way. So you have to be creative. And I would also say that depending on the industry, you have to somehow foresee the trends of the future. So depending on the creation or production cycle of a product. So if you consider, for example, the car and maybe the production cycle of a new car, the design workflow of a new car is about two or three years, you have to imagine the product that will look modern in two or three years, basically when it's coming out.
And yes, this varies quite a lot from industry to industry because other products might have an even longer production cycle or a shorter one. And this has a heavy influence on creativity and how far in the future you have to imagine the product and its shape.
Clara: All right. So taking into account the future as well. You both often work on original projects that you share online, such as Tintin’s spaceship for Alain and new CATIA e-cars in your case, Felix.