Becoming a Senior Product Designer
Becoming a Senior Product Designer may be different from you think.
This post is written based on my own experience and some of the things mentioned below may not apply to you and your journey as a designer. This is also written from the perspective of a Product Designer but may also apply to other design fields.
We, as modern human beings, work for 30–40 years. Decades passed, design changed, the industry changed, the world changed. If you have a bad habit and you practice said habit everyday, you aren’t as good as your neighbouring designer who keeps pushing themselves forward everyday to be better.
Good habits become skills and I wanted to share some of the skills I’ve learned while progressing towards seniority as a Product Designer.
1. Learnability.
I have met so many people, despite their job titles and experience, who have stopped learning. This is not about design principles, or colour theory, things that you can learn in schools or courses but new tools, frameworks, other fields, what’s happening in the world.
One example is the tools you use to design. As a junior, you learn the industry-standard tools and start creating with them, you may have a mentor to teach you how to use the tools. But…
