A UX designer shares three ways to beat imposter syndrome: adopt a learner mindset, treat criticism as feedback to improve, and ground your design decisions in data like user research and competitive analysis so you can confidently defend your work.
The best way to overcome imposter syndrome is to first accept the fact that you are a learner and you're not an expert, and there are something that you can make mistake with. There are so many things that you don't know, but you have willingness to learn. Always take the criticism in the most constructive and positive manner as you can. Never be demotivated with anything because you're in a learning phase and you're not a master. At the same time, if you want to face stakeholders, make sure that all the design solution that you do has enough data, has enough data or research to back it up. Don't be just like, because I wanted to do it or because I like it, I did it. No, man, just tell that, you know, I did competitive analysis, I did user research, I have so many data points that helped me derive this solution and helped me take this decision for the solution. The moment you have a lot of data backing you up for your decision, you'll never be underconfident.
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