What if Roger Federer, Tiger Woods, a Raccoon and a Koala were Designers?

Introduction — Specialists vs Generalists — I had passed my Masters in Industrial Design from a premier institute in India and had been working in the automotive industry as a User Experience Designer/ Industrial Designer for about 3 years in the best automotive companies in India. In spite of all of the quality industry experience, I had an unanswered career related question in my mind. I had a feeling that that if I asked the question to a senior at work, I might get a biased answer due to a conflict of interest and if I asked it…