Is being a solo product designer supposed to be this…
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Is being a solo product designer supposed to be this exhausting?
I don’t want to sound ungrateful about my role, given the state of the job market, because I’m truly very thankful. But I feel like there have been some big issues I’ve been facing as a solo product designer and I was curious how common this is for others.
For some context, I work at a startup and joined as the only person with product design experience.
From my experience, a lot of my time goes into explaining my design direction, responding to feedback, explaining tradeoffs, and clarifying why certain decisions were made. Constant questions come up throughout the process, or later after a direction has already been discussed, and I feel like it drastically slows the everything down.
I’ve thought about documenting my design rationale, past decisions, and rejected directions to help me walk the team through, but I feel like it’s such a waste of time and I’d never end up going back and reviewing my notes.
I’m curious to hear from other solo, freelance, and founding designers
* **Do constant conversations and questions around design direction, past decisions, etc. take up a significant amount of your time too?**
* **Is there anything you guys do to solve this issue?**
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I don’t want to sound ungrateful about my role, given the state of the job market, because I’m truly very thankful. But I feel like there have been some big issues I’ve been facing as a solo product designer and I was curious how common this is for others.
For some context, I work at a startup and joined as the only person with product design experience.
From my experience, a lot of my time goes into explaining my design direction, responding to feedback, explaining tradeoffs, and clarifying why certain decisions were made. Constant questions come up throughout the process, or later after a direction has already been discussed, and I feel like it drastically slows the everything down.
I’ve thought about documenting my design rationale, past decisions, and rejected directions to help me walk the team through, but I feel like it’s such a waste of time and I’d never end up going back and reviewing my notes.
I’m curious to hear from other solo, freelance, and founding designers
* **Do constant conversations and questions around design direction, past decisions, etc. take up a significant amount of your time too?**
* **Is there anything you guys do to solve this issue?**
#art
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