#146 Junior Designers, If I Were Starting My Design Career Today, I’d Do These 3 Things

Future of UX | Your Design, Tech and User Experience Podcast | AI Design · Mar 5, 2026 · 24m

In this episode of Future of UX, I’m sharing the three things I would do if I were starting my design career today as a junior UX/UI/Product Designer.

And I’m not saying this as abstract advice. I’m saying it as someone who started almost 10 years ago with basically zero real UX skills, taught myself a lot on the job, and built a career in a market that was booming back then.

The difference is: the market today is tighter, teams are leaner, and AI is automating a lot of the tasks that used to be classic “junior work.” So the big question becomes:

If execution is getting cheaper and faster……