We built SD because it was the exact thing we ourselves needed … and we knew there must be tons of others people out there just like us .

A little over a year ago, Trish and I started a line of baby products together. However, after we made the line we realized how much it would take to keep going. We needed a workroom, but couldn’t find one. We needed a website, but it was hugely expensive AND once built who would go to it without knowing us? We needed PR and sales help, but where do you go for that? There was just so much more to do than the two of us could ever imagine doing on our own.

Then the idea came to us: what if we built an online community where we could help other people like ourselves: a place where they would instantaneously have that community of not only like-minded designers, but also like-minded consumers to buy their products; a place where they could quickly and easily start selling their products; a place where they weren’t held hostage by a web developer for site design and maintenance. We built SD because we knew what an amazing resource it would be for designers, but also because we needed it, too!

Now that we’re up and rolling, we want the site and its designers to become a force to be reckoned with!!!! We want to shake up the industry and give power back to the designers to do things their way, whatever that way may be. Maybe, just maybe, the industry as a whole will start to learn that there is more than one way of doing things.

I also completely agree with Laura on the cheesiness and lack of depth of celebrities right now. It disappoints me to see people with so much media power either make fools of themselves, or do nothing positive for the world.

Great interview girls!