Designers managers, what you expect from junior designers ?

Our team has grown organically in the past couple of years. We have 2 senior designers, 1 mid level designer and 4 junior designers. Have been finding it difficult to find time for each of them. Senior designers who are mentoring junior designers are finding it difficult to complete their work. What’s the idea ratio between senior and junior designers in a product design team? Design managers, are you also facing similar issues? How are you working on it? Please share your thoughts and feedback.

been working at a product based startup as the only ui/ ux designer for over 6 months now. work is usually solving for and designing new features, or thinking redesign from user grievances. the products were already designed for them by an agency before my joining and feel poorly designed to me, but does the job for the users. decisions regarding usage and the how-tos of implementation are taken by the product leads. in such a scenario, i don't see myself taking product decisions, but i try to suggest my ideas (mostly accepted) when we frame the requirements and solutions. how do i grow from just largely only designing what my leads tell me, to actually making an impact with the products we have? background- i'm an electronics engineer, landed a design internship at a startup a little before graduation and they offered a full time role after. accepted it over my placement and it's been over 6 months in this role. thanks & cheers :)

I'm a design degree grad and have industry experience with a YC funded company and some freelance work. What's the industry looking for and what are the surface level skillsets us designers require to adapt to?

I have 1.7 years experience. worked in 2 startups as solo product deisgners. legal tech and ed tech.Did everything from research, ui ,moodbboard,illustration, motion,... since I never had seniors just curious to know...

In early startups specially in b2b, product designers are not designers they're rather design support. Always restricted to reach till minimum viable ux. Though whatever gets shipped at the end is better from past but power of shaping product is largely placed at PM's table and engeneering table (feasibility). Now you can avoid complaing and show high agency, partner with PM in defining Product but the default power house is still PM, not the designer. Also you don't have time for this because designs need to shipped to add to next sprint. At the end you just take a deep breath and sigh because you made something better, bit better if not far from what existed before. I guess high impact/ product definition work gets done by designer in big orgs only not only early age startups.

Lets discuss here our current CTC and YoE along with Designation. More experience people will tell us if need to switch. Mine is 13.1 LPA with 6 Years and 4 months of experience.

Hey everyone, I've been on the hunt for a product design internship for the past 1 month. I came across a lot of internships, but they were willing to take me only at zero cost. What would you do in this scenario? What other ways can I explore to find an internship ( I'm a junior doing my UG). THANKS :)

I have 1 year of experience in product design (UI/UX) and getting approx 6.5 LPA. Completed my graduation last year in Journalism then switched to design. Is the salary ideal or can I expect better salary now?