Your CV might look like a demotion (even when it isn’t)

Hey there Reader, Lately I’ve been talking to more and more senior UX designers whose CV looks… confusing at first glance. Not worse, necessarily. Just weirder than it “should” look if careers were a clean ladder. Lead → Senior → Product Designer → “just” Designer. Big company → smaller company. Manager title → back to IC. And to some, a CV like that often looks like you took a demotion. In my mind it isn’t. Design careers don’t follow a straight path. What looks like a promotion isn’t always...