I spent over 15 years as a designer feeling slightly out of sync with how work was supposed to ha...I spent over 15 years as a designer feeling slightly out of sync with how work was supposed to ha...
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Anmol Nandha
• Jan 5
I spent over 15 years as a designer feeling slightly out of sync with how work was supposed to happen.
Not failing.
Not struggling on paper.
Just constantly adapting.
Design itself was never the problem.
The work — problem-solving, pattern recognition, systems thinking — often fits ADHD brains naturally. What doesn’t fit is how design work is organised, measured, and managed once it enters a company.
Long meetings with no artefacts.
Performance measured by consistency, not outcomes.
Pressure mistaken for productivity.
It’s not about ADHD as a “superpower”.
It’s about the quiet friction many neurodivergent designers carry and the cost of work cultures that reward predictability over truth.
Full article here
environmentadhddesign

medium.com

Design Fits ADHD Brains — Until Work Culture Gets Involved

I spent over 15 years as a designer, yet something about the way I worked never quite fit.

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