The Slack message that made my stomach drop

Howdy designer 🤠 Recently I got the message I had been dreading my entire career: ‘I’m not happy with the progress we’ve made with [X] project’. - from my key stakeholder. I mean, honestly writing it out now it doesn’t seem so harsh, but in the moment it felt like things had gone completely off the rails and it was my fault. Embarrassed, worried; especially as a design team of one, a slurry of emotions took over. I’m the kind of person that jumps to extremes, so I was immediately running...