This natural constraint is a good thing as it allows you to focus on mastering a couple of skills that are in-demand and that are meaningful to you. As a designer you have to think about ways to creatively combine your skills to synthesize, identify the right problems and solve them efficiently.

Skills self assessment

It’s easy to progress at a skill in the beginning but it gets harder to get to an advanced level and even harder still to become an expert. That’s ok. Not all skills are important all the time and your needs and industry focus will change.

What’s important is to be explicit about what you know, where you want to go and what’s important to you. This mapping of skills (as objective as it can be) is the first step of getting there by being honest with yourself and where you stand now and where you want to be.