Is there any future for Ui designers to continue doing it?

UI design is rising rapidly with the development of the whole Internet.

In fact, the internet industry has developed in an all-round way in less than 20 years, but in these 20 years, the whole industry has not experienced too many ups and downs, and it is basically a steadily rising development trend. From the beginning of the portal website, to the all-round development of tools and games, and then to the all-round upsurge of mobile Internet, people are constantly popular and money is flowing. Various companies are constantly rising, and the range of users is more and more extensive. Wechat, Tik Tok, Aauto Quicker, Today Headlines, Pinduoduo and other daily activities have hundreds of millions of applications, which are very close to our lives. And this rapid development, ten years ago, for the position of UI design, the result was that a large number of UI designers were needed, so a large number of UI design beginners could meet the needs of this position instantly and successfully find UI design positions in various fields; Ten years later, there are still a large number of UI designers in the market-the difference is that after a period of training, the whole market can clearly see what kind of talents the UI design post should be to be suitable for completing the UI design work. We also met a large number of young people who came out of the UI design training class, and took them to apply for a unified design scheme or portfolio just like an assembly line.

In this regard, the team that really understands UI design refuses to join this novice who can only use software and basic design operations. There are very few designer training courses that really meet the needs of UI positions on the market. The first question is: What does a UI designer do? In the eyes of many people, UI designers draw pictures, icons and interfaces. Many training institutions also teach UI by drawing. This should have made sense five to ten years ago, because at that time, the style of UI design was very realistic and the requirements for "painting" were relatively high. In this case, it leaves a title that designers are very resistant to now: artistic design. But things are different now. Now you can open several mainstream apps. Have you found that the current interface design styles are mainly flat and simple? This greatly reduces the entry threshold for UI designers. It's not difficult to cross the line and fill in the color. Zero-based white can be mastered in a short time. If you still use these "painting" skills, it will be difficult to find a job.

I have discussed with many top designers and design team leaders in the industry, and everyone has generally given feedback. Now the recruitment standards have changed. A P9 friend of Ali said that when they are recruiting people, if they are UI designers, they will definitely ask him questions related to interaction. This must be mastered. A simple UI designer (only with pure visual skills) will find it difficult to find a good job in the next two or three years. Look at the interface design of various products now, is it almost flat and concise? The skills of UI designers must be closely related to interaction. The time when you can do UI simply by drawing pictures is over. The current UI is full link design (strictly speaking, full link design also includes operation design, marketing design and so on. But for beginners, it is already very competitive to master the narrow full link design of UI+UX), which requires designers to do a good job in visual and interactive design. For many small and medium-sized companies, the company doesn't want to spend money on separate visual design (only drawing interface) and interactive design (designing interface flow), but hopes that one person can do all the work. For large companies, I am required to be the first batch of mobile Internet product managers and designers in China, and there are more than 300,000 people in Zhihu. Zhiqun is a high-end vocational education platform. Participants include students from major universities at home and abroad, employees from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Ali, Tencent, ByteDance and Xiaomi, and experts and university professors from major companies P8, P9 and P 10 are sharing their experiences. It should be the most free course with dry goods that you can come into contact with, and the opportunities are limited.