That rings a bell with my current workplace too! Thank you so much for sharing.
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I often reflect if I want to focus on becoming what my current company is valuing (or maybe it’s not my cake and I should move on).
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The thing is: It’s an amazing growth opportunity to use what the company offers and we definitely grow in how the company shapes us.
It’s a question to what extent and how far are we excited to grow in it? In my case it also revolves around Ui design skills. I’ve been on that journey for 2y, so I wonder if I want to give up on my natural strengths (they were stagnant for some time now).
Really insightful read. I liked what you said about "A trend I’ve seen is that companies’ expectations for UI design are higher. And now, I have updated my skill sets to match that so that I won’t feel like I can’t do that work. I’m by no means amazing at UI design, but I don’t stick out as a sore thumb anymore."
I definitely understand this. I feel like being in a super subjective field as design, everyone has high standards, because they've been looking at design ALL THEIR LIVES, through media, advertising, ANYTHING digital tbh. A good set of society has a general sense of good/bad UI, so it's definitely something I need to get back to practicing. Coming from a visual design background to UX, I put a lot of these practices in the backseat, but it's definitely a muscle that needs to be cultivated.
That rings a bell with my current workplace too! Thank you so much for sharing.
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I often reflect if I want to focus on becoming what my current company is valuing (or maybe it’s not my cake and I should move on).
——
The thing is: It’s an amazing growth opportunity to use what the company offers and we definitely grow in how the company shapes us.
It’s a question to what extent and how far are we excited to grow in it? In my case it also revolves around Ui design skills. I’ve been on that journey for 2y, so I wonder if I want to give up on my natural strengths (they were stagnant for some time now).
Really insightful read. I liked what you said about "A trend I’ve seen is that companies’ expectations for UI design are higher. And now, I have updated my skill sets to match that so that I won’t feel like I can’t do that work. I’m by no means amazing at UI design, but I don’t stick out as a sore thumb anymore."
I definitely understand this. I feel like being in a super subjective field as design, everyone has high standards, because they've been looking at design ALL THEIR LIVES, through media, advertising, ANYTHING digital tbh. A good set of society has a general sense of good/bad UI, so it's definitely something I need to get back to practicing. Coming from a visual design background to UX, I put a lot of these practices in the backseat, but it's definitely a muscle that needs to be cultivated.