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When someone redesigns your WIP designs without permission, do you welcome their suggestion or do you consider it overstepping?
I’ve been feeling the latter recently - my manager occasionally redoes my work instead of giving me critique and offering me a chance to improve. One of my designer coworkers jumps into my designs and does this too.
I consider myself to be a pretty good designer but I’m early in my career whereas they both have many years of experience.
It leaves me feeling very negative about my capabilities and wondering what my purpose is if my manager and senior coworker can do my work faster and better.
I don’t think my manager is supposed to be doing any design work anyways so I wonder if he just misses being an IC.
Curious if this is an issue for others and how you overcame it.
Yeah that's simply preposterous. The only situation in which I'd even remotely consider this ok is if they're the UI person and need to matching things to a design system or brand guide. But simply going in and making a new design by removing your designs is utter nonsense.
Like, it doesn't even sound like they're making new pages and doing their own iterations - just redoing your work? What? In any other job that would be grounds for a serious escalation. If they have issues with your work they need to be guiding you to the right path - not just negating your work.
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Not just that - it defeats the purpose of having a UX designer on staff. Product design doesn't thrive in the world of "opinions" this isn't a fashion magazine (I don't think). Some managers just get into a role for the wrong reasons. Managers are supposed to help support the work of their staff, not be the overriding decision maker.
Seems like there needs to be a team-wide design meeting here. You all don't have your design goals aligned.