From the course: Creative Insights: Lauren Bacon on Web Design

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What is the evolution of a web designer?

What is the evolution of a web designer?

When I look back on my career path, I can see a really clear arc to it. There's a clear kind of evolution of roles that I played with a bunch of kind of twists and turns along the way, but you know, I started out just building other people's designs and just doing that kind of like, grunt work or whatever. I mean I always really enjoyed it, but just doing the execution. And then over time, I started to learn some design skills and started to have a, a little bit more of a strategic role. And then I, I did this detour into project management. And that was an interesting one because I was really good at it. I'm a good organizer of people. I like to get teams together and help them collaborate and get stuff done. I'm good with deadlines and all of that kind of stuff, so it was a really easy fit for me and it was something that you know, my team at the time really was pushing me into doing, so my managers were like, we'd really like you to do this thing, and so, you know, it was pretty…

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