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Data Scientist

Software Developer

Program Manager

Designers who talk about squircles should be forced to name all their layers.

Founder

Heard a Designer talk about Squircle and nearly slapped them...

What is wrong with Designers today?

What is wrong with Designers today?- Grapevine

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

Sad to see the degree awareness & lack of common sense in young budding designers these days. 

Me as a Product Designer get asked- 
what are you doing in an IT MNC?Did you shift to IT? How much designers can make at max, it must be bad, right? I regret being a designer, aren’t you? #speechless

Design Awareness

Product Designer

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

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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?

Field is saturated and you will seriously struggle to find work. Not gate keeping, just laying out the reality. If you're up for the challenge then good, if not then you should look at some other fields.

Product design is kind of weird now and is tougher than you think. It is no more a creative field where you can come up with unique ideas or have fun creating stuff. It is intoxicating, tedious and requires constant fighting with the stakeholders, listening to your micro managers and implementing stuff they "ordered" you to do disguised as feedback. Did I say, it is mostly copy work nowadays and portraying it as a whole new feature/design that is unique to your org/team?

It’s 1% creativity, 99% stroking the ego of your managers and bosses just so you don't get laid off.

(Not at capgemini, burner account)

To all the new Product Designers/UX Designers thinking this field is easy to get into. This is the reality of our field

How bad is the design job market now in India?is there an over

How bad is the design job market now in India?is there an over  supply? What makes a deisgner standout giving him edge over layoffs. I hear people telling to upskill . But what exactly to upskils _ tools,stack,process?

Someone: "No, I will not use Comic Sans as the header for the app" 😂

Do you also think that people don't let designers work properly?

Business Development Manager

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 💩

Hey everyone, I wanted to know exactly what a product designer actually does. What is there day to day activities, what are the qualification needed to be a product designer. I saw most of the product designers are getting really good pay in startup and I am curious to know what's their daily job looks like.

What does a Product Designer actually do?

Team Lead

Cred is overly done and confusing now. 
It is like a nightmare for designers.
What has been done on the app bro. Ek cheeze dhundhne me itna time lag raha

What do designers think about Cred's design? 😅

Software Engineer

Share what you're feeling about the market & other things around you?

DESIGNER'S - What's on your mind?

Lead Designer

I recently had the chance to interact with a couple of product designers from the Bangalore startup scenes. The huddle also included a few who are quite active on the LinkedIn community - where they constantly talkabout craft, user empathy, design principles and what not!

But when you really listen to what they are saying - they are just all fluff and no meat. They just want to beautify things for the sake of it. There’s no depth in understanding the users.

When asked “What measures do you take to empathise with the users?”, this senior and ‘awarded’ designer casually answered - “ We just go with the VIBE!”

I MEAN, REALLY? 

Looks like the marketing effort that goes into building their social profile is all these designers care about.

The future of UXD scares me.
Sorry for the betrayal, users. 💀

Alexa, cancel these pseudo Product Designers

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