Why do so many people turn to UI?

UI (user interface), Chinese name "user interface". Ps: (Baidu explained) UI refers to the overall design of human-computer interaction, operation logic and beautiful interface of software.

Generally speaking, the prototype design of all kinds of apps, web software and other products used on mobile phones and computers in everyone's life comes from UI.

Outsiders think that as long as you can use PS and draw a few design drawings, you can do UI work, but in fact, if you still want to make two drawings with basic software such as PS, AI and AE, you can still find a well-paid job. It is more difficult.

Nowadays, UI design should not only learn about color matching, typesetting, font design, three major components (plane composition, color composition and three-dimensional composition), specification, cutting diagram, mind map, prototype diagram and hand-drawing, but also know about procedures, user experience, consumer psychology, communication, interactive logic and marketing.

An excellent UI designer should not only be able to design a beautiful interface, but also maximize the efficiency of users' operation, influence users' operation habits through color tones, and clarify the primary and secondary display of product functions and product contents with colors or graphics to reduce users' operation burden.

Give a chestnut and a classic design for everyone to feel:

Tip: The difference between general design and good design is that good design is not equal to height. Due to the characteristics of graphics, a rectangle will occupy more pixels at the same width and height, while a circle and a triangle will appear much smaller if they keep the same height.

I believe that it is difficult for 99% people to see the difference without reading the prompt.

So UI is not as simple as drawing. These little experiences in design are accumulated in practice, and you can't learn them completely by copying them casually. Of course, this is also an important reason for the high salary of this position.

UI design is one of the rare technical positions in the it industry where you can get a high salary without writing code, so many people turn to IT.

Although most people can enter this industry through self-study or training institutions in general, some people are naturally suitable for UI design, such as:

The first category: college students majoring in fine arts.

It is often said that this is not the case in Adventure Island, but that many people don't know what they should do and have no clear career direction. Especially for some art majors, there are few jobs in the market, so it is difficult to find satisfactory jobs because of high wages and low expectations.

UI design is simpler than software development, and the technical threshold is lower, but the salary and market demand are basically the same as programmers. Therefore, if college students majoring in fine arts do not want to engage in traditional fine arts work after graduation, but want to engage in beauty-related work, then UI design in the Internet industry is a very suitable career choice.

The second category: designers in traditional industries.

Under the impact of the internet environment, the employment opportunities of pure art designers in traditional industries are decreasing year by year, and the creative space is getting narrower and narrower. Correspondingly, wages are gradually decreasing.

Coupled with the development of artificial intelligence, if you are just a simple P-chart, it will take at least four or five years or even longer work experience to earn tens of thousands of dollars a month. But if you choose to embrace the internet, you can easily get a high salary with a little effort.

Many softwares used by ordinary designers are the same as UI design, and the design itself is interlinked, so it is easier and more suitable for traditional designers to change jobs or change careers than ordinary people. As for internet thinking and user thinking, they can be gradually supplemented in the later work.

The third category: women are more suitable for UI design.

First of all, there is no gender discrimination. It's just that women are more careful, patient and tolerant than men, and most of the R&D departments in many enterprises are men, so female UI can enliven the team atmosphere and properly balance the proportion of men and women in the team.

What a UI designer needs is a delicate heart, an understanding of beauty, taste, thinking, the overall situation, and, preferably, a little psychology and the user's thinking. It is precisely because of these characteristics that employers will pay more attention to women when recruiting UI design, just as programmers prefer men.

In addition, the salary of UI design is definitely higher for women than most other occupations, and the working environment is relatively stable.

Of course, in addition to the above crowd, if you are very interested in design, it is ok. After all, interest is the best teacher.