About the “juniors are more humble” part.
After a couple of years of experience as a senior and in charge of mentoring the younger designers in my teams (design lead positions), I think it is quite wrong, and gets even worse in companies hiring a lot of juniors (Silicon Valley and similar job markets under tension), due to the filter bubble they create when lacking mentorship. As mentioned by Mike Monteiro in his latest book, Ruined By Design, design schools have one job, teaching the design students to leave their ego home. And they failed at it, big time.
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My observations are telling me that mid-experienced designers are the humble ones. Then they become know-it-all again when turning senior and bearing more responsibilities. Then a new phase eventually takes place when they realise they have become inflexible and dogmatic, and finally get back to that state of constant wonder, curiosity and openness. State of mind that makes the best design leaders.
