If your title is Product Designer but you don't actually influence the direction of the product—you're a Product Decorator.
Here's why it happens and what you can do about it:
Design is different everyday.
Yesterday you couldn’t design it.
Today your proud of designing it.
Tomorrow you’ll redesign it.
Embrace the emotions of designs to handle imposter syndrome.
Calibrate. Celebrate. Iterate
We pay too much attention to the most confident voices—and too little attention to the most thoughtful ones.
Certainty is not a sign of credibility. Speaking assertively is not a substitute for thinking deeply.
It's better to learn from complex thinkers than smooth talkers.
A penny for Sir Alex Ferguson's thoughts. He is chiefly responsible for Ronaldo rejoining #mufc and now he is undermining the club by holding court with Piers Morgan, so loathed by Ferguson he once told a reporter: 'Tell your editor to f--k off to Highbury and stagnate.'
Evra on Maguire: “I was shaking on Sunday when United were playing West Ham. I wanted to make sure that we would finish with a clean sheet because, if we didn't, everyone would have said it's because Harry played and that would have been unfair.” [@Betfair]