A few years ago, I decided to leave my career as an Architect, took a leap of faith and dove into the digital world to become a Product Designer.
At the time I have very little knowledge about the tech industry, and what a “Product Designer” actually does. So it was a huge learning curve. Luckily, one of my best friends inspired me with his journey (which you can read about here).
For me, it was
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Take the leap of faith. If you don’t love what you do, change.
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Learnt as much as I can from my peers, and the glorious internet about the tech and digital design industry.
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Did an internship with a start-up incubator called Lightning Lab. Crash course on start-up culture and product design.
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Scored a job at PWC digital (formerly known as Optimal Experience), as a UX Designer. PWC was one of the sponsors of Lightning Lab, so the internship paid off
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Repeat point 2… and don’t stop learning.
I was wondering if anyone else had similar experiences, and how did you transition?
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Originally I graduated as an industrial designer with a packaging design mayor. I started to work as a graphic designer. I mostly worked on print and sometimes I had web design jobs as a freelancer. I wanted to be better in the digital design and after a few years working in publishing industry as an art director I felt bored about my tasks. So I enrolled in a UX design course. I really liked it and I felt this is the future. After the course, I asked the agency that made the UX course if I can work for them as an intern for free. They agreed, so besides my full time job I started to work half time as an intern. After a month they offered me a half time paid position. Then a full time. So I needed to decide to leave my art director position what I did finally. Since then I have been working on gradually bigger and more complex projects and I really enjoy it. It’s such a good feeling making people’s life easier. I’m really happy for making the decision and change my career.
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