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Product design as a career is going to end?

Much of the design challenges are solved in the current 2D interfaces (Mobile/Web). Also maybe Figma will build an AI tool (leveraging all the design files they have with them) that can design stuff effectively. I think designers need to do a hard re-think on the 'creative' aspect of their job - deep inside it's just patterns and it's variations mostly. Will we need this much designers moving forward? Is Product design as a career past its glory days?

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Indusplateau

Stealth

2 years ago

I feel, you will have be move creative and sticky with design principles. AI will make you churn more output. Instead of 2-3 days for ui you will take a day max
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by GrubbyPan

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by BusyChurn67

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To all the new Product Designers/UX Designers thinking this field is easy to get into. This is the reality of our field

Field is saturated and you will seriously struggle to find work. Not gate keeping, just laying out the reality. If you're up for the challenge then good, if not then you should look at some other fields. Product design is kind of weird now and is tougher than you think. It is no more a creative field where you can come up with unique ideas or have fun creating stuff. It is intoxicating, tedious and requires constant fighting with the stakeholders, listening to your micro managers and implementing stuff they "ordered" you to do disguised as feedback. Did I say, it is mostly copy work nowadays and portraying it as a whole new feature/design that is unique to your org/team? It’s 1% creativity, 99% stroking the ego of your managers and bosses just so you don't get laid off. (Not at capgemini, burner account)

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by YellowTooth

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How many designers are working as designers after 45? Is it possible to survive in the industry after 40s? If yes, what are some strategies to survive in the market? Asking this for one of my friends, who is now 42 and is working as a leadership position.

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by Ajmonk96

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How bad is the design job market now in India?is there an over supply? What makes a deisgner standout giving him edge over layoffs. I hear people telling to upskill . But what exactly to upskils _ tools,stack,process?

How bad is the design job market now in India?is there an over

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by ChrisDough

Freelancer

Does design system kill creativity in the long run?

We built a very scalable design system for web and mobile app (Has B2B & B2C angle). But after a point I feel it's restricting the creativity especially for certain celebratory/sad events. Sure we can tweak the design system create variants and what not. At this point I feel just a very basic design system is enough to run the show. Anybody else feels this way? Thoughts?

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by Messi_kr

Stealth

Product designer rant

In early startups specially in b2b, product designers are not designers they're rather design support. Always restricted to reach till minimum viable ux. Though whatever gets shipped at the end is better from past but power of shaping product is largely placed at PM's table and engeneering table (feasibility). Now you can avoid complaing and show high agency, partner with PM in defining Product but the default power house is still PM, not the designer. Also you don't have time for this because designs need to shipped to add to next sprint. At the end you just take a deep breath and sigh because you made something better, bit better if not far from what existed before. I guess high impact/ product definition work gets done by designer in big orgs only not only early age startups.