Incremental Iterations are better than delayed perfection. As a mature designer, I valued design that is scalable, fast to deploy, and easier to measure. That way, I can help the business to move faster and prioritize features, workflow, and functions that a user needs. Having an understanding of business, design and strategy is something that I always brought whenever I work with a company.

Being respectful of everyone. As a mature designer, I work with so many complex products and that comes with situations like pressure on delivery, conflict of ideas, and so much stuff that will turn your head around. But that could be solved through open communication and making sure that you build and educate stakeholders about your design decisions. You might have contradicting ideas and be diplomatic but with respect and trust, everything can be ruled out. 🙂 Mature designers know how to be diplomatic yet decisive in these areas. 

Design advocate. As a designer, I have a responsibility to show the way how design should be implemented in areas of the product. Educate stakeholders, Give good design suggestions, and constructive criticisms, and lead the way through innovative and scalable design solutions. 

Be the voice of the user. As a designer, I always advocate for our user’s voices. They are the ones who use the product so knowing their frustrations, understanding pain points, knowing how they use the software, how they feel/do and synthesizing that feedback to educate our stakeholders are very important to me. 

Always be a beacon of positivity. All can get stressed at work so I always listen to my colleagues even if they just wanted to steam off or cool down with a bad situation. We all suffer from this from time to time so we should always try to bring some light to someone’s day. We never know what they are experiencing so always be empathetic not only with our users but also with our colleagues too. 🙂