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We all start life with a fun ride just like a pendulum that keeps realizing to us the joy of the far ends of the swing. The far ends are where we could feel the joy to the brim. The far ends are where we release the difference between our passion and hobbies. The far ends are where we realize the mastery of our craft.

Have you experienced that far end?

Well, today it is challenging to experience that far end of our craft. One of the reasons could be rapidly changing digital industry trends, daunting timelines, and countless deliverables. They won’t let us experience the best we could achieve in our craft which results in the “jack of all trades master at none”

At least for one, in the early days of my career, I started swinging between research and design. But sooner I realized that I am losing my far ends where I could excel to far ends of joy, passion, and excellence. Well, it does not mean that collaboration (swinging back and forth) between design and research is waste of time. It is absolutely good but when we have a mastery of our craft.

Being a master we could share invaluable learnings we are confident about. But if we kept swinging between two far ends then we could only share the surface knowledge, not the in-depth juice of the craft. Now question is

Are you swinging back and forth between research and design?

“UX research and UX design are two different fields of interest in the digital world where researchers and designers have one goal to deliver a human-centric user experience. Here, the researcher’s role is to discover and define the problem and the designer’s role is to solve the problem”

Well to validate it, we need to self-enquire ourselves.

1. Are you fall into the category of “someone” who is neither good at design, nor at research?
2. Are you shocking the end users with unfinished biased research or design work?

I am sure if you are the one who enjoys collaboration (swinging back and forth) but understands that swinging won’t make a master in your craft, then you would have discovered your true inner intellectual thinking.

But if we are “someone” who is stuck between our passion and hobbies then, this is the time to discover the true nature we are born in rather than embracing what society trends impose on us. We need to think about our own thinking and find the difference between our passion and hobbies for creating a better experience for others. we need to learn how not to let ethics overcome our morality. we need to ask ourselves whether we want to be like a pendulum or become an example of noble excellence.

In the end, I would say if “someone” is claiming to be an expert in all trades then we must think twice, and soon we would realize that “someone” is a “ jack of all trades master at none”. They are yet to taste the far ends of joy, passion, and excellence.