Hi All..
I have worked in a small company as a sole designer doing end to end designs, from design research, UX, UI to prototyping and handoffs and have never worked in a team.
I am looking for changing company since my learning is saturated here and mostly design work for the product is done here. I wanted to understand how does life of a product designer in any size company looks like? Especially in start ups and mid-scale company, given that I have one year experience and will not get much opportunites to get into MNC.
Here's what I need you people's insights to help me understand:
- How does your typical day in your role look like?
- How many projects do you handle at a point of time. Ex: there may be multiple features of one product or multiple products of the company
- What mostly do you do? Is it UX, UI, design research, wireframing or prototyping?
- How much creative freedom do you have in finalizing designs?
- How is the work disturbed in a team and how is collaboration done and designs are bought together?
- Do you always document your design process? Where do you?
- Who finalizes your design ? And are feedbacks constructive?
- How do you handle revision and critiques?
- Do you get downtime to recharge? Or have constant pressure to stay logged beyond work hours?
- How busy is your average day? Are you always busy throughout the year and constantly feel packed with tasks ?
- Do you get to learn anything new in the design field apart from learnings from your project?