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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 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

Fry
Fry @fry
Replying to @jonas.so

Sounds it! Ours is a few years in too but I only joined a year ago when there wasn’t a full time designer previously, lots to do! Also pretty technical in some areas as it’s a music tool, but yours sounds very. Do you do a lot of user research?

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