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Fry
Fry @fry

who else is the sole designer at a startup trying to work out how to do *all the things*?

Jonas Maaløe
Replying to @fry

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 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

Jonas Maaløe
Replying to @fry

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

Fry
Fry @fry
Replying to @jonas.so

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!

Jonas Maaløe
Replying to @fry

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