UX Design in India. How to climb the magic ladder?

Rohit Kumar

Mar 13·3 min read

My story on how I scaled up from being a UI Designer in Bangalore which paid peanuts to be the Lead UI/UX Designer in one of the startups in the city.

If you are reading this, you are among those who read design blogs, watch hours of youtube design content, and just signed up for yet another online course.

All these hours come in handy when you relate to a client running his mouth about a design concept he stumbled upon. You both can now spend a good 30-minute conversation discussing a solution that has got nothing to do with your problem. 😅'

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Year ONE 👇🏽

Welcome to this amazing experience of expectations.

You’ll meet people who come to you and say “Hey you are the creative one here, get creative now!

You will be convinced that you need an invisible magic hat of creativity.

You‘ll hate yourself for not impressing your boss with solutions to all his problems every single day of the week.

After months of let’s make it pretty and falling short to solve the problem. You then finally start to question every post you double-tapped and every blog you shared.

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Year TWO👇🏽

After numerous unpaid freelance work and jobs I took up along the way, it was clear that people don’t want to understand what design is. They just want creative solutions to their problems.

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I then started to focus on how to structure my solutions to solve my client’s problems and I now worry less about how to make his/her jaw drop with my animations and saturated colours.

There is NO such thing as a creative hat that you put on when you want to find solutions.

Well, that’s it just continue to find ways to understand what your client really needs. The rule of thumb is to always question (does it have to be the thumb?) and structure your solution.

What’s fascinating about this field is that no matter which industry you switch to, the UX process remains the same.

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There’s no such thing as a magic ladder for UX success. Build your own and let others climb when you do. Cheers!

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