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From your x years of experience working as a developer/designer.  What are the ways to improve the collaboration and relationship between designer and developers? How do you do it.

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From your x years of experience working as a developer/designer.

What are the ways to improve the collaboration and relationship between designer and developers? How do you do it.

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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 :)

Growth as a designer?

Visual designer

How do you stay inspired and continuously improve your design skills?

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?

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

Hey everyone, 
If there is anyone from designer background wanting to collaborate for a design project (specially UI/UX project, it can be any ongoing project or a project from scratch )like a side project which we both can mutually decide on what topics to work on for building up a good portfolio or someone who is willing to help, to learn UX designing is also welcomed.
Just wanted to collaborate with someone new so that I could also keep up myself with the ongoing trends of the market and upskill myself.
Thank you!!

Collaboration ?

UX/UI designer

Sometime i jump directly into visuals. I have strong visual craft skills and can do motion design as well. I do not overthink while designing small popups or bottomsheets. I admire Cred’s design a lot.

I am UX designer and do not use fancy jargons. Will design community accept me?

Business analyst

A G I L E

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

I just joined a semi government organisation in delhi as a Senior Graphic Designer. Prior to that I have worked for early stage startups and been a contributor to their growth story. But in my current organisation they don't like If I do things on my own or create something different from their existing designs. They even tell me what colors or font to use in designs particularly the assistant content manager who assigns work. Anything I make is rejected and replaced by their old ideas which they are following. How to deal with this?

How to deal with this nightmare? 👻

UI/UX Designer

I just want to know how designers and pms are placed in a company? 

Because where I work I feel the PM is really dumb and she doesn't understand ux or even a bit a sense of visual design on how ui should work. She says "I don't really care how a button looks as long as it's there on the page". 

And I keep her in loop for feedbacks and she just doesn't understand the problem statement. Initially I thought maybe I'm not explaining it correctly but it's almost a year now and I feel she's dumb. 

She's actually a friend of the CEO so she agrees to whatever he says and he's kind of similar so I don't really know what to say. 

Also, I always work on a new project without having a PRD in place. So again is that how it's supposed to go where I do the PMs job and a product designers job or how is it? 

Any comments or thoughts are appreciated 🙏

PMs and Designers collaboration

I recently redesigned a software for my company, and it has successfully gone live in production. However, I want to ensure its quality by comparing it against the original designs to identify any discrepancies, such as issues with padding, color, text, or spacing.

What methods or software tools do you recommend for effectively comparing live software with its design? Are there any best practices or alternative approaches I should consider? Any insights or experiences would be greatly appreciated!

How can I compare a live website/software with its design to identify bugs?

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 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...

what do senior product designers do daily basis? how much of it is ui and ux?

I'm interviewing a company, where one round is rapid prototyping round? I have never given this round earlier? Even though they are saying it's figma understanding, ui analysis round. But due to unfamiliarity I'm asking in the community.

Few things I'm looking for -
1. What will be the evaluation criteria?
2. What kind of brief they might give?
3. What things do I need to do?

Anything related advice.

TIA.

What you need to do in a rapid prototyping round?

I work in a small startup, we have 10 people in Frontend Team. 2 SDE-2, rest all SDE-1. 
I joined as Sde-1, when I joined them, we were 4(2 SDE-2 and 2 SDE-1).

At the time of joining, they had a messy codebase, nobody cared about writing good, optimized code etc. 

Whenever I got chance to work on old feature, I used to re-write entire code from scratch, made reusable functions, components and moved common functionalities there, all these made the UI better, platform stable. 
Worked on optimization and performance. These folks never cared about all these things. 

Also started peer reviewing everyone's PRs, explained them various design patterns and made them write re-usable components, optimized, bug-free code and other things.

Now I came to know, all these efforts of my mine never reached my manager to due manipulation by one of the SDE-2. 

My manager likes this guy and allowed him to handle the FE team. 
This guy has shown that he's the one who took all these initiative and he got all these things done by the team. 
He involved the other SDE-2 in this game. 

Fast forward 1 year, I see most of my code has been slightly modified by him, moved to new file and my actual file is deleted. 
He has done this in order to remove my GitHub history. 
I'm now getting frustrated and don't know how to handle this. 

Resigning is not an option and raising with manager won't help as he's slightly biased and won't believe me. 

Any help would be appreciated. 
TIA

Getting overshadowed in tech team

How many of you are using it in your company?

Are design systems overrated?

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

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

Dilemma: Designers vs Developers

I am a junior software Engineer, and I am just giving a suggestion to my senior particularly my manager and AVP

To include juniors like me in project architecture level discussions, like if a new project is to be developed, what technology are going to be used, how you came to a particular solution, why only this solution is appropriate why not the other.

I want to involve juniors like me during this discussion and not after everything is finalized.

So they are saying we are not including some project managers, why should we include you. This will only cost you your time, sare din meeting kroge to kaam kb kroge...

I just want to gain that kind of thinking, mindset, and knowledge while developing a project or solutions

Am I asking for too much?

Is my question silly?

Please share your genuine and honest opinion.

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