Want to move to Design and Architecture areas

Your request for guidance and "I don't need anyone to guide me" are in striking controversy. You need to decide for yourself: you either follow someone else's decisions, or take full responsibility for all the decisions, but then rely fully on yourself, don't expect any help. So far, I don't see that you have a right attitude to make a real designer and architect. At the same time, you may need to get a lot more experience to get such position; I just don't know.

I can tell you my impression: probably, you have been frustrated by bad design and architecture work from "anyone to guide" you. I assume that because this is a very usual big problem, but of course I cannot be 100% sure about your particular situation. But it does not mean that you are ready to take over yourself. Those capable of taking over usually find ways to push their decisions, even though it can be very difficult and can create conflicts of interests. More generally, if you are not ready to take conflicts of interests, you should forget about such positions.

It's possible that a good decision for you would be changing your job where you still work as a developers, but could enjoy better architecture and design which would satisfy your. If you succeed, you may get settled with that, or you could gradually move into the fields of architecture or design by suggesting some partial decisions of this level, some architectural or design elements, get them adopted, and this way earn trust in your team, which later can move you to the desired position. Remember, you cannot run without trust and against concensus, it would be way too hard to do, often impossible, and, if forced, get disastrous results. You really need to earn trust. And of course, if you work in a bad team (meaning, the team which can accept bad architecture or design), your prospects would be very bad; leaving such team would be the best.

—SA