Since 2018, I’ve worked as a UI/UX Designer with 7 different startups, all at different stages in the product development lifecycle. I saw Design teams ranging from multi-person to nonexistent, designers split across multiple squads, and ridiculous design-to-engineer ratios.
I also saw and felt the frustrating side of being a designer — but I want to empathize with startups, their founders, and their product teams. UI/UX Design is still relatively a new type of role. To put UI/UX into perspective — the earliest Accountants were employed around 300BC and Business…
