How the design job market changed in 2024

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@TheRealRayMillsToo Месяц назад

My advice to anyone that wants to get into UX/UI: don’t. 10 years in and my last layoff has me now doing Amazon deliveries and looking for a career switch. UX/UI was always a finicky field. Between Covid and AI, even if you have a job now, it can go up in smoke at any point.

@ggggg-qw7hl 8 дней назад

Covid accelerated digital trends and AI only continues it further. You think development and product teams and the like are all going away and automated then? It's entirely trending toward UI will be automated in some fashion but aesthetics and molding the UI to the unique business cases is still a role that will exist. UX is how we interact with technology (once Human computer interaction) this is not going away. Expand your mindset and timeframe

@TheRealRayMillsToo 6 дней назад

@@ggggg-qw7hl the argument isn’t that it won’t exist or be necessary. For me, it’s that companies know even less about what makes UX successful. With the industry they way that it is, it makes the likelihood of securing or maintaining a job in the field treacherous. There are still a lot of people in UX that are thriving and that’s great. Maybe it’s more a matter of how badly you want a career that’s secure enough that you’ll have it in 6 months, 5 years, etc

@yellingbytes Месяц назад

i feel YOU! As a senior PD, I was interviewed by one of the biggest finTech R company in Europe. They gave me 7 days to finished 5 flows hifi prototype of one app, and questioned me that I used the existing library, and then they asked me to take part in 1.5 hour whiteboarding, which is way too complex and tougher process and pickier than before.

@Designalily Месяц назад

That's quite extensive even for this market. Unless they were a dream company, I'd refuse.

@DeidreDevelops Месяц назад

I still negotiated for my role. The catch was that I had another competing offer incoming. I think I still would have tried regardless, but the market is definitely sooo different. My search took me 9 months!!

@dbarnett Месяц назад

same! search in 2021: 1 week search in 2023: 9 months

@dan.carino Месяц назад

Not as tough here in Europe, but companies do seem to be more picky. One company reached out to me to interview with them. Even though I'm a senior designer at a well known product company, and my portfolio is solid, I didn't go through to the first round. Like damn!

@mikemillerdesign Месяц назад

I’m not willing to play their games. Consultancy, freelance and entrepreneurial mindsets are the only way in. This is why we need to unionize, this market is manipulating us.

@masterloot 14 дней назад

That's basically what I am concluding as well.

@ivanaandersson Месяц назад

I am applying mainly for graphic design jobs and I notice that they are looking for and hiring more junior people all around. Seniors with years of experience are having a hard time, but in their case, I would usually expect them to take their business abroad for those big bucks.

@LT-ri8rq Месяц назад

OMG the questions about giving the managers full names is absolutely insane and inappropriate. I would defer and offer only the things that were positive about their cultures or practices, or offer the ones that offered references publicly on LinkedIn. If that would not due then, BYE. You are 100% correct in everything that you say.

@Designalily Месяц назад

Right?? And when I gave this feedback the recruiter defended this as part of their process, meaning they were doing this to everyone. How two founders thought this was a good idea is beyond me.

@XRCADIA Месяц назад

Thank you for sharing

@Designalily Месяц назад

Keyword: relevant experience If that wasn't emphasized enough 😂

@rodmm3010 Месяц назад

Had the same. A known European fintech company that made me an offer 2 years ago rejected me now 🤷🏻‍♂️

@TKGZONE Месяц назад

Some of these questions these managers ask are gross. Shows what type or person they are

@AgniMJ Месяц назад

As someone who aspires to be an UI/UX/Product Designer, this just scares me.

@HimanshuYadav-nt9zp Месяц назад

Seems like the market is now too saturated without much quality designers, and with the AI stuff, its going to get worse for UX people. Hopefully I'm proved wrong

@vespasandengines Месяц назад

It’s a tough industry now… industry has changed a lot and the talent pool has grown so much…

@mikemillerdesign Месяц назад

There are opportunities, everyone is chasing tech and not the less sexy industries like healthcare, finance, and government. The tech industry is not the only way in. You have to be passionate about this and too many were lured by the promise of six figure jobs through boot camps.

@rodmm3010 Месяц назад

Bootcamps were a f*** cancer for the profession. It gave the PD role a bad reputation anf they all Come with the same speech of problem solving with a linear 1-size-fits-all process. Had to work briefly with a bootcamp junior for a client. Total Nightmare. Another issue is also some visual designers were in UX roles and moved up in organizations and companies shaping the whole department in their image .

@Designables 6 дней назад

The market is saturated thanks to shitty bootcamp

@KenMMark 20 дней назад

it seems like with all the freeware product design and marketing can be very competitive and outsourced to cheap workers overseas?

@uspolitics Месяц назад

How much lower? 30%?

@Designalily Месяц назад

Unfortunately not uncommon, but from what I'm seeing (guesstimating) SEEMS to be 20% less on average

@jeffyeah4256 Месяц назад

What about AI? Does this scare you, taking jobs away from design

@adamstuartclark Месяц назад

I think you can work alongside AI quite successfully. Most tools from Photoshop to Figma now have them embedded. As designers, its important to help guide businesses to a good decision for the benefit of their users and those users needs and pain points. I still find that AI misses these crucial points. Sure, it can create pretty designs and some good layout patterns when prompted, but the fine details, the forward vision, and the heart, can be shepherded by humans. It is far from taking creative jobs, even though some business owners are convinced they can save some money. Make a compelling case for your role and value as a human and you should be fine.

@jeffyeah4256 Месяц назад

@@adamstuartclark In others words, it can do everything but Taste...But I see them killing a lot of jobs..Past 20 years jobs in game design were going to china, now AI..It's depressing really. I have student loans up the wazzoo and fucking serving coffee at Starbucks for 5 years....