One of the biggest challenges for me was to conduct research under time and budget constraints. I only have about one month to get all the final user interfaces prepared and hand over them to the developer. My manager asked me to skip the research phase altogether but I know user research is crucial for making sure I'm solving a real user problem. To find a workaround, I learned to do guerrilla research through focusing on pooling the resources I've got and streamlining the process as much as possible.

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Another problem I encountered was when I figured out more user needs through doing the usability testings, I can't control my burning desire to solve those newly discovered problems. As a result, I was distracted from my minimum viable product and started to make my design more complicated. I didn't realize the problem until I felt I was going to run out of time. To prevent myself from being distracted, I wrote my problem statement on a sticky note and stuck it on the wall above my desk so that I could refer back to it whenever I needed to regain focus.