Featured in Invision article, "Design mentors share 11 tips for excelling at your first job as a designer"

If you look back on your first days of school—in kindergarten, in high school, in college—you’re likely to be hit with those first day jitters. No matter how thorough your own education has been, you might well spend the first couple days of your new design job in a state of semi-panic: I don’t know how to do this, your inner saboteur might say. What if I can’t keep up?

Michelle Lin, formerly a product designer at Reddit, reminds you to trust the learning process that got you here. “Be humble but know that you will grow drastically as a designer and learn immensely,” she says. “Your confidence will grow as time goes on. Trust the process.” 

Just as you’ve learned to trust your design process, you need to learn to trust your own ability to grow and learn as a designer. Remember you won’t figure out everything on your first day, or even in your first 90 days. It’s okay not to know everything right away. But believe in your ability to do the work, and everything will flow.