Career planning for UI designers is complicated and there are many directions, the list is endless. For example, you do UI and then turned to do the front-end, or you think UI design often stay up late to catch up with the map, you want to pursue a nine-to-five life, so you do the design teacher. Planning and development must be combined with your own direction of what you are good at to do personalized customized design, the following from the UI design capabilities to analyze a wave of UI design career planning.
We based on today's mature UI design requirements, combined with their own ability to tend to analyze what direction can be developed?
1, product manager:Product manager in the Internet industry is a very hot position, resulting in most people want to enter the Internet industry will choose to enter the product post as the direction of their transformation. Everyone always says "everyone is a product manager", but in fact "everyone can do product manager?"
Let's take a look at the requirements for product managers.
From the above requirements, let's combine UI design and list the advantages of UI design to product manager.
A complete project has a product, design, development, testing, operation and other positions, and the product manager is considered to be the upstream of the UI design buttress.UI design will be involved in the product manager's workflow, so for the product manager's work UI designers are very clear.
Product managers need to be familiar with product design and user interaction, and UI design is fully equipped with this ability.
Product managers need to have competitor analysis, user experience and other capabilities, that UI design in the design work, competitor analysis, user experience in the workflow will also be involved, so mature UI designers also have the ability to do so.
If you are a product manager who will UI design, smaller scale, job division is not fine small companies are certainly very welcome you, because you can be a person to take over all the work from the product positioning - product function design - product interface design - product interaction design. (After all, the market is still more small and medium-sized enterprises, and small companies are not necessarily worse than large companies, you can have more opportunities.)
2, product operations:In the product design process, if you join the operational thinking to design products (eg: operational illustration interface design), will greatly reduce the operating costs of the product. So if the UI design know how to operate, you can also develop in the direction of product operation.
From the above requirements, let's combine UI design and list the advantages of UI design to product operation.
Product operations also need to tap into user needs, optimize the product experience, and improve user experience and satisfaction. Looking at this requirement is not to think that this is also a mature UI design must have the conditions.
In the process of UI design, if you do the e-commerce project will certainly come into contact with a lot of operational illustration design, you are in the completion of the design work at the same time, certainly also accumulated a certain amount of operational thinking, which is also a major advantage in the direction of the development of your product operation.
In the operation work, it is inevitable that there will be some drawings, posters and other publicity, you must have a design background is at hand.
3, interaction designUI design needs to participate in the requirements review, understanding of PRD, user research, emotional board combing, interaction design, visual design, visual review, UI walk check, acceptance and other processes. After the completion of the interaction design by the UI design to do visual design work, small and medium-sized enterprises may let the UI design or product manager to take over the interaction design work.
4, front-end developmentFront-end development is suitable for UI design with one of the more positions, that a lot of UI design in fact more or less will be a little front-end knowledge. So if the UI design to the front-end to change careers also have a very good advantage.
Web front-end is a must for all Internet companies in the research and development team, Web front-end in the country began to be emphasized in less than eight years, from 2014 to the present, "front-end engineers" heat continues to go up, and their salaries are also rising.
Front-end engineers first job is to realize the interface of UI design, it can be said that all the user terminal products and visual and interaction-related parts of the front-end engineers belong to the professional field.
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How about the front-end salary? What kind of skills do you need to have? In the recruitment website casually intercepted a monthly salary of 10K + JD, for your reference:
We summarized the enterprise recruitment mentioned the most skills requirements: Javascript, CSS3, html5, Vue, Vue.JS, Boostrap, Uniapp, React, Node. ...... and so on.
In fact, there are many directions that UI design can develop, and many directions that UI design wants to change careers, and you can choose the direction that suits you according to your personal ability and background.