1. I voice my concerns and document it officially  
 2. Product design is an iterative process and at times we agree to test each other’s hypothesis

Product Designer

Designers of GV, how do you handle feedback that you disagree with on your design work?

Software Engineer

Designers of GV, how do you handle feedback that you disagree with on your design work?- Grapevine

It's it practice practice and practice or just whatever you did at work was enough?

Product Designers on GV, how did you guys proceed to refine your craft ?

I'm curious to know if it's okay to compromise on certain design approaches it visuals just to make it easy for devs to develop. I honestly don't understand the ROI on this because my manager is more keen on having the final designs easy to execute for the FE guys than having a bit flavourful UI. 

Do share your thoughts

Is it okay to compromise on design to make developers work easier?

Should devs be given the onus to give design feedback on how UX of a product should be?

Dilemma: Designers vs Developers

Founder

I don't know about you guys, but I had some encounters where senior designers were rude in the way they spoke and gave their opinions in critics. Quite frankly I think it's the senior designers who need to learn soft skills more than anyone, because it's directly affecting the confidence of juniors who're still learning and entering the field. Please be kind, balance praise and criticism and think about the people who will be taking the industry forward in the future.

Can senior designers learn how to give good feedback?

Product Manager

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

We have had new designers recently in the team which have made our life hell. Only thing they want is pixels perfect design to be made due to which our projects deadlines have stretched a lot and bothered our work life balance. 
Introducing new designers to a team can bring fresh perspectives, but it seems these individuals might be focused heavily on perfectionism. Their insistence on pixel-perfect designs is causing delays and affecting our team's workflow and deadlines. While their dedication to detail can be commendable, I think it's essential to strike a balance between quality and efficiency to maintain a healthy work-life balance. Also these folks are making everything so design heavy that we also have had CVR drops. New design looks flashy and barely good to use for normal users. Thoughts?

Frontend Engineers, how are you able to manage never ending design reviews?

Early in my career, I was working with a client who was always frustrated with me. I was also frustrated with her because she always used to give design inputs and had horrible taste and decision making was absolute shit.

I got so angry at that woman that I added a middle finger gesture in the reflection of the water. It was super unnoticeable but if you really knew where you were looking at then you could make it out. 

The craziest thing is that they actually posted that in their social media. 😂

What is your design horror story? 😂

What is your design horror story?

Operations Manager

Job role of design technologist/ engineers in companies like Chargebee, Postman 
What tech stack should we know in order to get into such companies with 1+ year of product design experience
Which companies hire for these roles?

What is the role of design technologist/design engineer?

Have you had experiences working with UX Designers which made you want to pull your hair out and smash your keyboard into the screen?

Have you instead worked with designer unicorns who made your life easy?

UX Designers who looped you in from the very start of the engagement, understood your tech stack and developmental constraints, reviewed designs with your team before pushing them to production, who crafted well-organised design systems and components which were updated in real time, making life easy for your FE developers and in time for each dev sprint?

Do you believe such designers even exist?

Please share your stories.

What do you hate about designers?

Whenever I overhear someone say that, "Can you just make it fast? It's just a simple design, so it shouldn't take long, right?" it makes me a little pukish. 🤡

As a Designer, what are you tired of hearing from non-Design folks?

Robotics engineer

Mostly so called "Design Leaders" "mentors" are always spewing gyaan in my office, LinkedIn, social media but actually fail to implement those stuff. Every other week we have this call where designers are supposed to talk about a topic and every designer comes with such complex presentations, use big words as if they are saving the world or something. They unnecessarily complicate such simple topics and then go on to call themselves designers 🤡

Why are product designers so pretentious?

UX/UI designer

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.

Product Design team- ideal ratio between senior and junior designers

What would you say to a designer just starting out?

Designers of GV, what’s a design trend you think is overrated?

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

And no, the debate isn’t whether tech hiring is tough or non-tech hiring is tough - all I’m saying is ... design hiring is the trickiest of them all.

Think about it:
- There are only so many keywords to focus on. How do you even begin to filter out the right talent?
- Subjectivity of Aesthetics: Defining what looks good vs what is “really” good. What might look good to a recruiter is not what might appeal to a hiring manager
- Communication Breakdown: What looks good to a hiring manager needs to be translated to the recruiter on the grounds and factors why the design made sense. Tough - hell yeah!
- Every designer has a portfolio, but how do you differentiate between genuinely innovative work and something that’s just flashy or just showed his inclination to one theme/style or is the portfolio screaming love for one sub section - neobrutalism anyone? Today’s trendy designs might be tomorrow’s outdated trash. How do you hire for timeless design skills?
- Technical Skills vs. Artistic Vision: How do you balance or filter on either - the need for technical proficiency with the necessity for artistic vision
- Client-Based Variability: Designers often tailor their work to what the ask was. How do you discern their true skill level when their portfolio is a mixed bag of client/customer whims? + how do you know X's work is not Y inspired or even better.. a rip off?
- Designers are creative people. How do you access real Cultural Fit? This breed needs to be protected and let them be. But then how do you ascertain designers work style gels with your company’s culture?
- Without assignments you cant get to know them or their depth and dimension of work, and assignments (in general) carry a bad rep in that circuit - cause a lot of work is passed off as a screening assignment.

IMHO, design hiring is like assembling a rocket ship with Lego pieces - it’s complex, nuanced, and the stakes are incredibly high. If can either get it right or F UP real bad.

Design hiring is the trickiest

Human resource

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 :)

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