Manage the Chaos, Survive Another Day

As a newly-minted UX designer at Google wayyyyy back in the day, I was helped out by a project manager who saw me floundering under an avalanche of design requests and impossible deadlines.

I can’t count the number of times a designer has reached out to me in some state of desperation because they have been over-allocated to projects and are sinking under the weight of PM and engineering partners’s expectations. While the sole respon…