Clara Kliman-Silver is a Staff UX Researcher at Google who studies design teams, design systems, UX tools, and designer-developer collaboration. She specializes in participatory design and generative methods to investigate workflows, understand designer-developer experiences, and imagine ways to create UIs. In previous roles, she has conducted research on developer tools, artificial intelligence, and healthcare. Clara holds a Bachelors of Science in Cognitive Science from Brown University.
It’s your first day at Company X. The company has a vision (or maybe they don’t?). The company has a deadline. They have a team ready to start work.And we have you. Design team of one.Welcome, we’ve been waiting for you.It can be very daunting or very exciting to be a solo designer. And depending on where you’ve worked in the past, it can be very lonely.My talk is about how I re-designed a startup platform from scratch, lessons learned along the way and how being a solo designer is the best thing in the world, until it’s not.So where do you start?I’ll work through all the challenges I faced in what I consider a healthy startup environment. My goal is to break down how to look at the big picture and look at how you can make practical shortcuts along the way.
