There’s a kind of parenting moment no app ever prepares you for. The moment you’re crouched on the floor of your kitchen, trying to hold back tears while your kid screams from the hallway.

That’s when it hit me: nothing I’d downloaded was built for this part of parenting. The messy, overstimulating, chaotic part. The part where your brain goes offline just as your kid needs you most.

I research usability and accessibility daily as a UX Designer. Because of this, the topic of disabilities and how different they can come up a lot in my reading and research.

Now that working from home has been the norm for a few years, what is your ideal schedule?

“A person hired to do a little bit of everything is going to do just that— a little bit.” A breakdown of how to be a designer at a startup up to a mid-sized company.