pretty good first week - any of you have tips or advice being the only designer at a company?
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Don’t settle as ‘just’ being a designer (unless you want to). Design thinking can be useful across other aspects of business. See if you can add value to other areas of the biz and grow your skills over time. Be proactive - ‘OMG I didn’t know Tahreem could do that!’
Could you give examples?
The values at one company were ‘designed’ by someone in HR. Just an icon with text. I felt that if they were more interesting then the team would engage more with them. Fast forward months and large format images in offices and on desktops began appearing…
