The Challenges of Being a Black Designer in Corporate America

Fredrick Royster
11 min readJul 27, 2020

(updated in August 2021 from the original July 2020 Essay)
If you are African-American in any of the disciplines of graphic design, web design, user interface design, or industrial design, being African-American in today’s modern workplace offers its own unique challenges.

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Fredrick Royster

Lapsed Web Designer*UI/UX Professional* Electronic Dance Music Aficionado * Chicagoland (except that stint in Croatia!)