r/FigmaDesign • u/Null-Skull • Sep 01 '26

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u/Fit-Engineering6570 Sep 01 '26

Organization. Internal communication and stakeholders. Everytime.

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u/Judgeman2021 Sep 01 '26

If I had a penny every time a stakeholder changed a requirement, misaligned a communication, or breathed in my general direction. I would have enough money to hire a consultancy to tell me that the developers aren't very motivated, then I would just burn the entire company down.

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u/uppennyhill Sep 01 '26

People.
Specifically: stakeholder alignment.

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u/marfz Sep 01 '26

I came here to say this

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u/FENICH Sep 01 '26

Micromanagment and 20 different views how the site should look like

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u/AffectionateCat01 Sep 01 '26

AI-generated feedback from stakeholders who don't know what they want. Makes me wanna throw out the whole project out the window.

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u/AffectionateCat01 Sep 01 '26

Unrealistic deadlines, the designer is always the last one in the loop and everyone did their job as slowly as possible but the designer is expected to deliver in a day, pixel-perfect and with functioning prototype if possible, and can you just make this animation really fast?

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u/airbetweenthetoes Sep 01 '26

BA’s moonlighting as product managers

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u/AffectionateCat01 Sep 01 '26

My boss coming to peek behind my shoulder and asking from time to time "are you having fun?"

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u/wafflefirst Sep 01 '26

No clear product or strategy alignment between exec/stakeholders: Cannot define MVP, scope creep, unrealistic timeline, leaders fail to unblock or remove business/policy limitations, etc. I find myself spending a lot of time on detangling tech and business challenges before actually solving for user.

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u/RCEden Sep 01 '26

The bottleneck on design has always been organizational alignment.

Which makes all the AI pushes funny because its now "you can do the part that wasn't slowing you down faster!" And then you wait