Working at a consultancy, the pace was different from previous experiences. Managing multiple clients at once taught me to balance priorities constantly, negotiating scope and timelines without over-promising. Design decisions had to satisfy business goals, be feasible to build, and not hinder other projects.

The biggest shift was learning to adapt my usual process to the new environment. Traditional research steps got compressed into light competitive analysis and direct client presentations. Every conversation with a client had to be clear, jargon-free, and grounded in solutions I could defend. The volume of work pushed me to design faster, strip out redundancy, and prioritize function over form.