How the design job market changed in 2024
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- Sharing unfiltered thoughts about my interview experiences as a senior product designer in Silicon Valley.
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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.
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
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!
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!!
same!
search in 2021: 1 week
search in 2023: 9 months
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.
That's quite extensive even for this market. Unless they were a dream company, I'd refuse.
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.
That's basically what I am concluding as well.
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.
Thank you for sharing
Keyword: relevant experience
If that wasn't emphasized enough 😂
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.
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.
Had the same. A known European fintech company that made me an offer 2 years ago rejected me now 🤷🏻♂️
it seems like with all the freeware product design and marketing can be very competitive and outsourced to cheap workers overseas?
Some of these questions these managers ask are gross. Shows what type or person they are
How much lower? 30%?
Unfortunately not uncommon, but from what I'm seeing (guesstimating) SEEMS to be 20% less on average
As someone who aspires to be an UI/UX/Product Designer, this just scares me.
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
It’s a tough industry now… industry has changed a lot and the talent pool has grown so much…
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.
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 .
What about AI? Does this scare you, taking jobs away from design
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.
@@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....
Show portfolio instead of trying to sell a course because this sounds like a skill issue problem.
My portfolio course is free, which shows my previous portfolios.