SMALL STORY
It started with one day
of watching someone work.
This was around July, 2018. I had recently graduated and was teaching myself design.
I learned Photoshop, watched tutorials, followed along with whatever I could find online, and designed some average designs. But I was learning, experimenting, and slowly convincing myself that, yes, I could design.
Luckily, I got placed at a small company where I had to design websites.
On my first day, I managed to design just the landing page. Meanwhile, a senior designer on the team had designed the entire website before lunch.
The next day, my boss gave me a simple task:
And honestly, I can't tell you how much I learned that one day just by watching.
That single day taught me more than the previous six months of tutorials, listening, and figuring things out on my own.
Though, I stayed at the company for only four days, but that experience stayed with me. It made me realise that sometimes, the best way to learn isn't to listen to someone for an hour.
It's to work alongside them.
And that's why I'm launching a small experiment:
Buddy as a Service
A chance to observe, ask, think, design, build, and learn alongside someone experienced.
OBSERVE
WORK TOGETHER
LEARN BY DOING