When it comes to the future of the designer, I think it is still wonderful, UI designer is the starting point of the career, not the end, as long as you can enter the industry, their own upward growth momentum and enough effort, there are opportunities.
1, the talent market demand
According to the data in October 2020, there are 165,000 job openings, so the talent market demand is still very large. As the trend of Internet instrumentation is becoming more and more obvious, UI design will also be accompanied by the network to penetrate into all walks of life, according to this logic to analyze, the next few years, the market demand for UI design will still maintain a certain degree of heat.
2, talk about the prospects of UI design first have to look at the prospects of the Internet industry
UI designers as a position within the Internet industry, the prospects of the profession to follow the overall development of the Internet industry. Nowadays, at first glance, the mobile Internet industry has been saturated in various fields, each field has one or several head of the product in a monopoly position. For example: chatting with WeChat, QQ; dating with strangers, probing; ordering food with Meituan, hungry; looking for work with Boss, Lagou; office with nails; brush video with Jitterbug, Racer ......
1. The old field of the constant emergence of subversive
To kill the most intense e-commerce field, for example, before who all thought taobao/tmall, jingdong, after the e-commerce market has been the big picture, but the rise of pinduoduo, and now there are love inventory, etc. in the mainstream market outside the rapid development.
2. The times make heroes
The 2003 SARS achievements of Jingdong, this year by the impact of special circumstances, not only telecommuting, fresh food takeaway and online education to rise, there are also remote at the CP of the ember of such products.
3. Internet + booming
Internet + sounds lofty, but is by no means just a slogan, the Internet of traditional industries is being y transformed. For example, there are already many products that are well developed for Internet+ healthcare.
Internet medical industry's well-known products
Sounds and the Internet has nothing to do with the real estate industry this year also opened the online buying mode, like Evergrande, BGN and other large real estate companies, have their own Internet team.
This year, through the Internet mode to sell houses of the constant housing pass App
Voting with the feet is also very illustrative of the problem, the Internet industry is still the hottest industry today.
Career development path of UI designers
The following is a friend of ours, the UED director of Dianping, a PPT in a chart, talking about the growth path of designers:
As a UI designer (also including interaction designers, etc.), at first, from the primary position to do the general designers, and then you can choose to specialize in line or management line.
To choose the professional line is to go to senior designers, design experts and so on. If you take the grade to correspond to Ali, P8, P9 feeling (of course, if you do not care about the business, to P9 is still difficult)
Choose the management line, it is from the Team Leader to start, and then up to the director, and then the next, the management of the business, to the general manager (different companies called different) of this level, corresponds to the Ali, the equivalent of the P10 bar
To give two examples. Our friends as an example:
Dai Yusen, one of the founders of Jumeiyuping, is a designer, and later with Chen Ou to Jumei to go public.
Dai Yusen and Mr. Ma Li on the live show
Mr. Liu Yaping was also a designer at Google in the earliest days, and is now the senior vice president of product at Stranger.
After entering the workplace, UI designers can get more exposure to user research, interaction design, and product manager-related knowledge if the company's framework and time and energy allow, and do things as close to the company's business as possible. From design to product, and then to the product director or other management examples of many, the future of the designer is not necessarily just a designer.
5, can be divided into the following four stages of learning.
The first stage is the foundation of art, that is, sketching hand-drawn this piece, this for the later UI design has a great help.
The second stage is the software level, now UI designers generally have to master the following software, such as PS AI AE AXURE?
The third stage is the theoretical aspect. This has content is a little more, such as color matching, typography, font design, the three major components, consumer psychology, communication, as well as mind mapping, prototype diagrams, as well as interactive logic, specification, cut diagrams, understanding of the program, Internet thinking, user experience, and Internet marketing are needed to learn.
The fourth stage, the theory of software will be, is to copy works, and original works. Then it is constantly doing projects, participate in various Internet UI contests and some part-time job network to take orders part-time, and go to the Internet company to do UI design work and so on. After that, we keep browsing some good design websites, such as website cool.com. The long term persistence will be able to put their own design level slowly improve.
With the above four steps, not necessarily become a UI design master, because the above is the need to learn the knowledge, this knowledge if you only rely on fragmented self-study is very slow and slow. What's more, the competition on the road of UI is also very strong, but also have a strong patience, to be able to suffer, to persist, have confidence, and specialization. So that you can learn.