who else is the sole designer at a startup trying to work out how to do *all the things*?
Been there, am sorta there now too. Except it’s already a few years old and highly technical product (Unity3D plugin for AI-assisted QA in game dev) built almost exclusively by engineers. It’s fun 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
I started just 3 weeks ago, mid-sprint(s) towards the year’s largest games industry expo in a week, so…no haha 🌪️🌊 It’s the plan though, but a lot of the work rn is just to scaffold and introduce basic design process actions to the teams
Yeah makes sense. I’ve sporadically managed to fit some in and thankfully have a CEO, backend dev and PM who all try to get it done too, but it’s hard to integrate it properly, still a work in progress!
It sure is. I’ve realized with time that orgs either want to do this or not. Trying to steer a boat, by nudging it from down the engine room, never justifies the opportunity cost when compared to running the engine on a ship that’s already en course