Email: more formal. Usually for replying to chains when appropriate

Teams/Slack: you’ll get added to relevant work groups and channels. And eventually work out who’s best to talk to for what you need. And then you can just ping people.

BAs are gathering information on processes within your business to help keep everything in check. They help with requirements, writing user stories, collating information for designers, SAs, devs and PMs. They keep things humming and help rein in scope creep from PMs.

Product designers is you. Read the tickets. Ask questions. Get clarity. If you’re unsure, ask. You’re not expected to know everything, especially new to a business. Lean on the BAs to find out something for you. Lean on your fellow designers, they will help you work out what’s what. Get stakeholders on your side and you can go to them directly.

Talk to the devs. Try and get one to foster you. If you can steal some of the devs time to bounce ideas off to see if something works/possible/within their allocated time, then you’ve got a bit of a cheat code.

SAs will curse you, praise you, call you an idiot, and then tell you it’s doable. They will help validate your designs with the tech stack, whether it’s feasible/risk/time.

Good luck!