My friend works at CRED. I have heard good things about their design team

The Cred design team work like a cult group. Like needs some major passcode kinda thingy to be welcomed into their group.  
 But pretty good work churn out by Cred design team,

Investor

Not true. If you have what it takes, they will take you

Consultant

I am not from Design but I must tell if you want to work with a design leader, Razorpay's Founding member and OG Designer Chetty Arun is the top !!! Couldn't help praising him here anon but seriously, that guy cares a lot about Razorpay culture and is fun guy to work with !!!  
  
 If you find a chance to work with Chetty Arun, dont refuse 😁 . Just hop in.  
  
 I wish I was a designer for atleast this sake. 😂🤩

Software Engineer

Every leader has their own set of flaws. You just got to figure whose you can bear and work with. Good ones have already left the country.

Intern

Almost none. Most design ‘leaders’ in India are a bunch of self-obsessed clout-chasing social media clowns. The reals ones are working in silence without all this online cacophony

Product Manager

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Hearing plenty of stories of poor experiences Designers have at companies. Who are the best Design Leaders to work with?

Data Scientist

Hearing plenty of stories of poor experiences Designers have at companies. Who are the best Design Leaders to work with?- Grapevine

Hey Folks, Continuing from my previous post.
Any designer here who feels they are really skilled yet stuck doing mediocre work😶‍🌫️? I am looking for individuals who are designing for the passion of craft, individuals who gets to uncharted depths of user understanding, individuals who have realized they are more than just designers.

Comment or DM your portfolio or proudest work till date irrespective of your experience level. I will reach out to the right folks individually 🫰🏻

Giving exceptional designers a chance to shine

Product Designer

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

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?

I'm a UX designer in an MNC with almost 2 years of experience. I want to work on a mid size / small design team with strong design practices. Does anyone have recommendations for companies I can consider?

I am looking for places where design contributes to product decisions, strategy, rather than simply executing the PRDs.

Companies with a strong design team?

UX/UI Designer

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Curious if there are any PMs who started their careers as product designers or sth similar. If yes, would love to know your story. If someone around is has a similar story, would love to hear that as well!

Any designers turned PMs?

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

Looking at the sad state of UX market in India makes me think about the scene few years back. In 2018-19 many folks who found coding or other roles a little difficult switched to UX. 

UX design was glorified even more by few design influenzaaas as if its the only coolest job left in IT.

Most of the experienced designers we see today are earning good but shit in their pants when asked to do good visuals. They are good at talking, use lot of UX jargons and give gyaan on Linkedin comments and constantly ridicule designers who are good at visuals to sound intellectual.

We don’t see talented illustrators, motion designers, vfx folks get the appreciation they deserve. Also these skills are difficult and takes hell lot of practice to master and has a high entry barrier as well.

Market ruined because of low entry barrier in UX Design? 🤔

Business Analyst

I have 2+ years of experience. B.Des degree from a reputable university. Unfortunately, stuck in a toxic startup which was once a great place to work at, thanks to my previous manager who is a kind soul. Previously worked in a design-centric unicorn. 

You’re guaranteed to get a designer with great attention to detail, understanding of product sense, an eye for quality visuals, and balances business goals and user needs. Let my YoE not fool you :)

Please let me know if any of you are looking for product designers!

Anyone hiring Product Designers?

Please suggest some good startups with a decent culture to work as Product Designer. I have over a year of experience.

Good startups to work with

If yes, please comment with the company name.

Anyone hiring product designers?

Is it just me or design culture in India is just becoming worse?

Saw a lead designer come in for work. Sit down for 5 minutes and make crass jokes and then leave. What even man. I am super disappointed. All the best people I have worked with have either left or are about to leave. All the women in office become uncomfortable with these jokes and it is visible on their faces. 

They then take credit for our work and speak really well to the senior management about "HE" has done. 

I transitioned to design to learn and grow in my career but this is the least ambitious field I have seen in my career.

What do you think?

Design in India is toxic 💩

Software Developer

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

I've been in this field for about 15 years now and post-covid this field has become a borderline joke and I feel embarrassed about Design in India.

Do not think that Designing involves ONLY a lot of Visual Design work, importance to "craft", motion design etc.

The kind of work you need to do should involve a LOT of user research, planning, testing, domain knowledge, technical knowledge and actual hands on design work.  I don't get to do a lot of it today but back in the day it was all that we were taught by our Design Leads.

Now because of these influencers whenever I tell people that Design is innovative and based in Behavioural Science, they assume that my work is easy, doesn't take much time, I just have to design screens etc and I keep on explaining to them that you're wrong and there's more to it.

Thanks to clown influencers, kids think if they follow these clowns they can get into FAANG or some top tier company.

I'm really scared of the state of Design in India 5 years down the line when these design kiddies become more senior.

Former Design Head here, Here's my advice to designers today

Growth Manager

It seems unfair to me and others like me who are trying to get into the industry. People who are in the industry very well know that they didn't get an entry because they did some Jony Ive-level work. The majority of them simply got lucky in 2021. Now everyone wants superheroes in the name of product design. I wish I was doing the same job search in 2021, things would have been different.

Designers Rant

I’m interviewing at a bunch of companies and most of them want a generalist in the product designer position. Expecting to take on every responsibility possible, leaving no room for any sort of work-life balance. 

Founders/co-founders, listen up. You might be obsessed with the problem you’re solving. Do not expect others to be equally obsessed. With all due respect, we’re here to look after ourselves and our families. You disguise these additional responsibilities as “learning opportunities” which is absolutely bollocks. You don’t even offer to pay accordingly. 

Just needed to rant. If anyone else here has a different point of view, I’m open to changing my opinions.

What’s with these companies and their expectations from designers to do everything?

Hi fellow designers, I am a brand & graphic designer who worked at a smaller design studio for the last 5 years or so. I am now looking to join an in-house brand team in a big start-up/corporate. In my previous company, since it was a smaller design studio, I was getting paid less compared to what startups and corporates pay their designers.

Will my previous lower-than-market-rate-salary affect my ability to get a good CTC now? What is a good CTC expectation for a senior brand & graphic designer with 5-6 years of good work experience?

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