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.
