What is the future development prospect of UI design?

Speaking of the prospects for designers, I think they are still good. Being a UI designer is the starting point of a career, not the end. As long as you can enter this industry and have the motivation to grow upward and work hard enough, There's a chance.

1. The talent market demand is huge

According to data in October 2020, there are 165,000 job vacancies. The demand in the talent market is still huge. As the trend of Internet tooling becomes more and more obvious, UI design will also penetrate into all walks of life along with the Internet. According to this logic, in the next few years, the market demand for UI design will still maintain a certain degree of popularity.

2. When talking about the prospects of UI design, we must first look at the prospects of the Internet industry

As a position within the Internet industry, the career prospects of UI designers follow the overall development of the Internet industry. Nowadays, at first glance, all fields of the mobile Internet industry are saturated, and each field has one or a few leading products in a monopoly position. For example: there are WeChat and QQ for chatting; for making friends, there are Momo and Tantan; for ordering food, there are Meituan and Are You Hungry; for finding a job, there are Boss and Lagou; for working, there are DingTalk; for watching videos, there are Douyin and Kuaishou...

1. Subversives continue to appear in old fields

Take the e-commerce field where competition is fiercest as an example. In the past, everyone thought that after Taobao/Tmall and JD.com, the overall situation of the e-commerce market has changed. However, Pinduoduo has emerged, and now there are also companies such as Aikuku that are developing rapidly outside the mainstream market.

2. Times make heroes

The SARS epidemic in 2003 made JD.com a success. Affected by the special circumstances this year, not only telecommuting, fresh food delivery and online education have suddenly emerged, but also remote processing CP The shimmer of such a product.

3. Internet+ is booming

Internet+ sounds lofty, but it is by no means just a slogan. The Internet of traditional industries is undergoing profound changes. For example, many products in Internet + medical care have developed very well.

Well-known products in the Internet medical industry

The real estate industry, which sounds completely unrelated to the Internet, has also launched an online home buying model this year. Large real estate companies such as Evergrande and Country Garden have Each has its own Internet team.

Hengfangtong App, which sells houses through the Internet this year

Voting with your feet is also telling. The Internet industry is still the most popular industry today.

The career development path of UI designers

The following is a picture in a PPT by one of our friends, the UED director of Dianping, talking about the growth of designers Path:

As a UI designer (including interaction designers, etc.), you start from a junior position and become a general designer. Then you can choose the professional line or the management line.

Choosing the professional line means going to senior designers, design experts, etc. If we use ranks to correspond, in Ali's case, it feels like P8 or P9 (of course, if you don't care about the business, it is still difficult to achieve P9)

When choosing the management line, start from the Team Leader and go up To the director, then to the business management, to the general manager (the name is different in each company), which corresponds to Alibaba, equivalent to P10

Take two of our friends as examples:

< p>Dai Yusen, one of the founders of Jumei Youpin, is a designer. Later, he and Chen Ou took Jumei to the market.

Dai Yusen and Teacher Ma Li in the live broadcast

Teacher Liu Yaping was originally a designer at Google and is now the senior vice president of product at Momo.

After UI designers enter the workplace, if the company's framework and time and energy allow, they can have more exposure to user research, interaction design, and product manager-related knowledge, and do things as close to the company's business as possible. There are many examples of people moving from design to product, and then to product directors or other management levels. The future of a designer is not necessarily just a designer.

5. Learning can be divided into the following four stages.

The first stage is the art foundation, which is sketching and hand-drawing. This will be of great help to the later UI design.

The second stage is the software level. Today's UI designers generally need to master the following software, such as PS AI AE AXURE?

The third stage is the theoretical aspect. This one has a lot of content, such as color matching, typography, font design, three major components, consumer psychology, communication, as well as mind maps, prototypes, as well as interactive logic, specifications, cutting diagrams, understanding programs, and Internet thinking. , user experience, and online marketing all need to be learned.

The fourth stage is to master theoretical software, which means copying works and original works. Then I continued to work on projects, participated in various UI competitions on the Internet, took part-time jobs online, and went to Internet companies to do UI design work. After that, I kept browsing some relatively good design websites, such as zoku.com and so on. If you persist for a long time, you can slowly improve your design level.

With the above four steps, you may not necessarily become a master of UI design, because the above is the knowledge that needs to be learned. If this knowledge only relies on scattered self-study, it will be very slow. What's more, the competition in the UI field is also very strong. At the same time, you need to have a lot of patience, be able to endure hardship, be able to persevere, have confidence, and be dedicated. Only in this way can we learn.