Transitioning from engineering to UX to product design: My story of 5 years

My journey of starting out as an engineer, venturing into design, beginning my design-career as a UX designer, and finally transitioning into product design.

2015: The time I didn’t know what UX design was?

I was an engineer, before I even knew what UX design actually was. The term was new and unfamiliar. I didn’t know that a job like that even exists. So, how was I introduced to it?

My mentor and a professor who were judges of our final thesis, saw my front-end coding skills in our project, and told me that I…