Young founding designer at a tech startup. 2nd design role. 8 months in. Wearing multiple hats atm. Curious whats something you have done(or wish youve done) early in your career that served you well?

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Did: got my typography TIGHT. Which has made a massive difference for me.

Wish: Learn motion design. Even if you never become a motion designer, knowing how to do decent (if just simple) motion will make you MASSIVELY more marketable. I’m now a reasonably competent in simple motion and people are always impressed by the fact that it’s a skill I went out of my way to develop.

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Thanks for your input! I agree, I noticed the growth of motion (and 3D) in agency work and I feel it will only continue to expand. Out of curiousity what resource did you find most helpful in learning motion? Got all the time now!

Wish I’d gotten more experience working on larger teams or tried to intern at big company. I’ve been mostly a founding designer or freelance designer for startups and now am having a hard time finding a good job where I’m not the only or one of a couple designers doing EVERYTHING (aka wearing many hats). I feel like I could have grown a lot more if I could have had more experienced peers to learn from. Wearing many hats gave me a lot of valuable skills but now only other startups who want me to do the job of 10 people want me and I want to do more focused product design work now and it’s been hard to get interviews.

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Portfolio is what matters most. Idk if school makes much a difference and if it does it’s probably not somewhere you’d wana work anyway lol. Yea I learn from Skillshare, YouTube, adobe tutorials, workshops at conferences. I was an assistant for my friend who taught at Miami ad school one semester and it wasn’t different from my school experience. You learn mostly on your own anyway and they just help build your portfolio but it’s be more valuable building a portfolio with real client work.

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