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My Senior Designer explains the UX Junior to Senior Career Ladder
All designers want to move off the ladder, but spoiler alert, it isn’t a defined checklist.
Realistically, the difference between a junior designer and a middleweight designer and a senior designer is that one of the main differences is experience, and moving up the ladder takes a little bit of time, and it’s not something you can do overnight one to two years.
It is something that can take roughly five to ten years to make your way up the ladder to reach a senior level.
But let’s say you’re ready to have a conversation with your boss, and you want to move up the ladder. How do you know when you’re ready. But before we do that, let’s look at the differences between the responsibilities of a junior designer, a middleweight designer, and a senior designer.
The Newbie Junior
So, a junior designer tends to have fewer obligations. This is just due to a lack of experience and the fact that they still find in their feet and they don’t know what they want to do yet within the UX field. Juniors tend to solve particular problems: usually set tasks by their seniors.
