The Hard Truths of Being a Product Designer
They're not easy battles, but keep going
Being a product designer is rewarding for so many reasons: you can potentially design something that gets used by a lot of users, changing or nudging the landscape. You get paid rather handsomely, and you can work from anywhere. It is a great time to be alive, and to be a product designer.
However, there are also hard truths that you need to be aware of. These truths can actually apply to anyone working in tech too — and in different kind of organization. So, buckle up and enjoy this ride.
Most of your work will not get to see the light of day
Here’s the truth. You work hard to explore all design alternatives, do user research, gather requirements and validate all those designs. In the end, those are only the process or the journey. Be ready to ship only a fraction of them, or nothing at all. Things will get cancell…
