Design in India is toxic 💩

I have felt that being a designer in India is super hard because of the lack of validation that we get from society and family.

Sad to see the degree awareness & lack of common sense in young budding designers these days. Me as a Product Designer get asked- what are you doing in an IT MNC?Did you shift to IT? How much designers can make at max, it must be bad, right? I regret being a designer, aren’t you? #speechless

I've been in this field for about 15 years now and post-covid this field has become a borderline joke and I feel embarrassed about Design in India. Do not think that Designing involves ONLY a lot of Visual Design work, importance to "craft", motion design etc. The kind of work you need to do should involve a LOT of user research, planning, testing, domain knowledge, technical knowledge and actual hands on design work. I don't get to do a lot of it today but back in the day it was all that we were taught by our Design Leads. Now because of these influencers whenever I tell people that Design is innovative and based in Behavioural Science, they assume that my work is easy, doesn't take much time, I just have to design screens etc and I keep on explaining to them that you're wrong and there's more to it. Thanks to clown influencers, kids think if they follow these clowns they can get into FAANG or some top tier company. I'm really scared of the state of Design in India 5 years down the line when these design kiddies become more senior.

Mostly so called "Design Leaders" "mentors" are always spewing gyaan in my office, LinkedIn, social media but actually fail to implement those stuff. Every other week we have this call where designers are supposed to talk about a topic and every designer comes with such complex presentations, use big words as if they are saving the world or something. They unnecessarily complicate such simple topics and then go on to call themselves designers 🤡

Whenever I overhear someone say that, "Can you just make it fast? It's just a simple design, so it shouldn't take long, right?" it makes me a little pukish. 🤡

I started designing around 2019, self start though i never thought this is going to be a real field designing screens but i landed here and eventually liked it. I started as UI/UX designer in a service based company with a mere package of 2lakh. And then after I left that company had a package of 3.5lakh. I joined a new company 2.5 years back in a product based company 5lakh and after i got appraisal salary hit 9lakh a year. Even though i have this much experience i am still struggling in designing a good screen as compared to Software development where you can join a good company and you can get a salary above 15 lakh for sure. Product design is hard and to be in the industry you really have to wake up and start learning whatever you have to come up with whether learning Android, web, ios , design patterns, design system or so. If your company does it or not . After applying and rejected to different companies i am now concluding that your experience doesn't matter in this field ofcourse experience in domains works. Trust me if you get less money, your opportunities are less. It's you who will have a good opportunity if you have good knowledge and skills. On the personal side, i am rejected by girls who don't even do jobs , earning less salary, and don't even think about high salary girls. I just wanted to flush out and want to start with a fresh mind, sorry for bringing this up. I will start again. I do again