This presentation will summarize my learnings from being the only designer in a company building SAP-driven, complex solutions, working with highly skilled and experienced folks, and focusing on how I try to carve my growth journey as a designer.

- Being only a designer can be fun, but challenging as there’s no one to brainstorm, ideate, or review with.
- Best performed when seen yourself beyond being a designer (don’t be JUST a designer, be more)
- It is 50% figma+ 50% Collaboration
- Understanding, and taking advantage of your team’s knowledge about business, customers, product usage patterns, opinions about similar/competitor’s products,
- Have frequent design feedback/ Product Review discussions with devs, sales, and marketing separately, document the inputs and review with your product lead to see what all can be considered
- Scheduling frequent reviews with non-focused groups (i.e. interns at your org who do not use the product) to see if the UI makes sense to them, how/what they would do differently if they get a chance to design it
- [so many learnings to share :) ]