Since I transitioned myself to UX/UI Design career, I never had any reporting manager as designers before. Basically, it means I never had a person who give me any guidance or design-related feedback. So I need to come up with the improvements and grooming the other designers within the team on my own even I’m not in a lead position.
Due to my curiosity, I always try to figure out the answers of many problems within the company somehow. Start from the product discovery to product implementation. That’s why I take a lot of time to learn all about the best practices available in tech industry.
I think it’s very essential for the company to align the expectations between each party from the company goal to each individual goal. Especially the product wise, to align between business, tech, and design are the utmost important factor to steering the successful product discovery and development.
When I joined the startup, they typically operated in a way that best suited their immediate needs. However, this freestyle approach often led to common problems, resulting in a buildup of technical and design debt.
I use this opportunity to revamp our methods, incorporating ideas I learned from various sources, primarily focusing on 'SCRUM' and 'Product Discovery.' I tailored these concepts to maintain flexibility, ensuring the process was neither too cumbersome nor too lax.
As I mentioned about working in SCRUM environment, I still found that many principles are quite unfit with several of company demands or some team member styles. So we are just sticked with the essential artifacts such as creating meaningful tickets, definable sprint goals, and lean checkups.
As a designer, it is very important to ensure that every party is on the same page. So we came up with the process that designers are fully integrated with the agile environment by become a dedicated resource with in the software development team.
Even though I haven’t mastered every design domain, I always strive to understand each discipline to a degree that allows me to identify specific design issues effectively. This approach ensures we have enough designers with the essential skills to tackle every design problem, rather than trying to make everyone proficient in all areas.