Our industry needs a transparent career path that rewards our craft | by Caio Braga | UX Collective

Leading with Craft is a limited series of articles where we shed a light on stories of designers with successful careers as individual contributors. Curating and publishing hundreds of articles every month at the UX Collective, we have noticed an abundance of resources for designers switching careers to management, but a gap for those who want to continue to focus on their craft. This series highlights professionals that never let their seniority move them away from their practice and their passion for what made them great in the first place, such as Gabriel Valdivia. Gabriel Valdivia has been practicing design for more than fifteen years, both as a design leader within large organizations, such as Google and Facebook, and sole designer for startups. He’s currently leading Consumer Experience Design at Patreon as a Senior Staff Designer. Prior to that, he managed a design and research team at CNN Digital’s Emerging Products following the acquisition of Canopy, a private personalization

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