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Junior Designers vs. Senior Designers

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Re: Junior Designers vs. Senior Designers

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The article left a bitter taste. It's probably intentionally all black and white, but it does sound almost passive-aggressive to me. I can safely consider myself senior designer (doing UX design for more than 20 years). I always ask about deadlines. I believe not doing so is highly unprofessional. I have other tasks in parallel, clients have other tasks in parallel. Deadlines = priorities. Discussing priorities is cr…

I'm an software engineer, not a designer, but I also was left with a bitter taste. Re >> The other does as many drafts and explorations as possible within the time allotted, then shares their favorite options. It's good to ideate, but I've found that it's common for junior designers to ideate too much . For example, I had a designer come back with some designs that they felt really excited about, but they all were ti…

If the brief is vague enough to omit things like "don't rebrand everything" that falls mostly on the person leading that project, in my book, although a more seasoned designer might have challenged the scope definition more.

Re: Junior Designers vs. Senior Designers

#52
„One asks for help.

The other asks for help by proposing a solution.“

I am not a designer, however in my line as a software engineer I have learned that sometimes it’s better to ask for feedback without immediately giving a potential solution.

Doing so can seriously limit the creative freedom of the other person by shoehorning them into a specific line of thinking. Sometimes the best feedback you can get is reconsideration from a completely different angle.

This obviously doesn’t apply to everything, especially not if the answer is quickly googled. But complex or project specific decisions can benefit from multiple people coming to their own conclusions. Especially so if the individual ideas are then the same or at least partially overlap.

Re: Junior Designers vs. Senior Designers

#53
This author might want to check their accessibility, I can't use the downarrow or spacebar to scroll the page when I visit it.

A senior designer know's deisgns should be accessible to people who don't use a mouse.

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