--- title: General Advice for Designers | daily.dev description: A comprehensive set of career and leadership principles for designers, organized across eight areas: craft excellence, time management, decision-making,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/general-advice-for-designers-ydnl6jucl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: General Advice for Designers | daily.dev og:description: A comprehensive set of career and leadership principles for designers, organized across eight areas: craft excellence, time management, decision-making,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/general-advice-for-designers-ydnl6jucl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YdnL6juCL.png og:image:alt: General Advice for Designers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # General Advice for Designers **[Hardik Pandya](https://daily.dev/sources/hvpandya)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A comprehensive set of career and leadership principles for designers, organized across eight areas: craft excellence, time management, decision-making, communication, stakeholder alignment, prioritization and scoping, team management, and managing up. Key themes include maintaining hands-on craft skills at all seniority levels, structuring your day intentionally, building decision confidence through intuition or data, communicating clearly and definitively, aligning stakeholders in person before broadcasting decisions, and coaching teams by continuously raising the performance bar while providing strong support. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#leadership](https://daily.dev/tags/leadership), [#ux](https://daily.dev/tags/ux) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/general-advice-for-designers-ydnl6jucl) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"General Advice for Designers","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/general-advice-for-designers-ydnl6jucl","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/general-advice-for-designers-ydnl6jucl"},"datePublished":"2026-03-08T09:28:42.393Z","dateModified":"2026-05-07T02:12:59.501Z","description":"A comprehensive set of career and leadership principles for designers, organized across eight areas: craft excellence, time management, decision-making,...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/9eea6bdb84f0d50f4e375857a42e2da4?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/9eea6bdb84f0d50f4e375857a42e2da4?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hardik Pandya","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hardik Pandya","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--S2I6DYsa--/f_auto,q_auto/v1772962100/logos/hvpandya","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hvpandya"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/general-advice-for-designers-ydnl6jucl","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"career,leadership,ux","timeRequired":"PT8M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hardik Pandya","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hvpandya"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"General Advice for Designers"}]} ```