Closing thoughts
From coordinating with multiple stakeholders to defending my designs and taking accountability for my mistakes, my first stint as a user experience designer taught me many critical skills required to excel in the industry as a designer.
I had the unique opportunity to work on the redesign of a product from scratch. I had the chance to see how products are built from the ground up, the constraints I have to work with, and how I can positively influence change.
These are anonymized peer reviews I received one year into the job:
“Sree Mahit is an exceptionally talented designer at Designer-2 level who is thorough with his design process and delivers quality work on core products like Flow Microsegmentation..."
“Sree Mahit is autonomous in his work as he learns from others very quickly and takes complete ownership of the work..."
"...He has also showcased ability to dive deep in on some complex Flow projects like Policy 2.0 independently...”