What kind of designer am I?

Have you ever wondered who you are? Are you that human who is good at choosing colors, has an amazing memory to remember dates and little things in life, can predict the outcome even before it could be finished, and can visualize any story or description of a situation easily? These are the symptoms of being a creative person XD.

Ever since I finished my UG, I always wanted to make use of my above skills somewhere useful but I wasn’t sure. Many people suggested I become a graphic designer or an animator but I knew only I have the answer to that question. I took my own sweet time sketching and painting and that’s when someone said “You can design without coding”. Yes! That brought me a lot of excitement. In my initial days, I was just playing around with HTML & CSS. At that time I was surprised at how well I could visualize, but now I definitely want to go back and change the font, color schemes, Image side, padding, etc (XD). But one thing was for sure I learned how these work and I definitely wanted to create my own app for ios, Android, and a website too. The blocker here was I didn’t know how to start, or where to start and loads of questions in my brain led me close my laptop and fall asleep.

No matter how many youtube videos you watch and learn you always need a guide for real to say where exactly you are going wrong and to have an amazing portfolio you need your fundamentals right. Ever since then, I wanted to get into a design school and become a UI/UX designer.

Here’s the plot twist after doing my PG I ended up being a conversation designer. Confused? so was I! For once I thought I blew away my dream but little did I know being a conversation designer isn’t bad at all. My initial days of being an intern included how to use elements for the Web, Whatsapp, and Facebook in a chatbot. Later I felt why am I making a flow chart with built-in elements when I was meant to design them. How are these flow charts helping the bot build? can’t we just build it? and various other questions. And of course, with lots of mistakes, I got to learn it better (still in the process of learning).

In this era of Chat GPT and if you are a conversation designer, you win!
I still remember people saying it's just boxes and lines and me for example in the past saying it’s a “flowchart” but in simple designer terms you are giving life to a bot and making a conversation with humans and solving their queries and the technical aspect, you are legit an architect who is building it from scratch. Isn’t that amazing?

Although I tell various clients to fill out bot persona sheets, set the tone of the bot, branding, do user research, understand their end goals, find the shortest path, work on the content, design, test, and analyze the bot there is much more to learn every day under conversational AI and it’s amazing to see how chatbots are making history in this new era.

And yes I did chase my dream! Finally, I ended up at my school learning UI/UX design principles and guess what my life got more interesting. I ended up making a portfolio, my case study, and working on various aspects of design every day.

So what kind of designer am I? I’m a conversation designer by day and a UI/UX designer by night and I just know it’s not the title of being a designer rather if you feel you can solve a problem in a creative way go for it :)

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