Why you should learn UX in 2024
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
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Of course it's NOT impossible to become a UX designer in 2024. It's still a good year to start but it may be one of the last good years - after that it will get significantly more difficult. There is the threat of 500 designers applying for a single job, heavy optimisation, extreme layoffs and AI taking the jobs over, so let me walk you through why this may not necessarily be the case - at least for those that are motivated enough to do more and better.
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In any case, if you're hard-working and motivated - welcome! You'll do well here!
All the best!
Michal!
#ux #jobs #uxdesign
00:00 Don't be a UX designer in 2024?
00:18 Reason 1 - Crowded
02:24 Reason 2 - Boring
03:58 Reason 3 - Optimised
04:54 Reason 4 - AI
05:41 Reason 5 - Evil UX and dark patterns
06:16 Action plan
So excited and grateful for this! 🙏🏻🙌🏻 2024 is gonna be a big year!!
Yes! It won't be easy but easy is for the weak people anyway. We will all thrive this year BIG TIME! :)
Thank you very much! Amazing points on how to adapt to change as a designer in this world. I appreciate you for always keeping it real
That's the idea!
Sometimes it’s a struggle for sure, and sometimes a breather is what’s on the mind constantly but as you said. Important is to push through and be better EVERY day and the master of your own time. Great video as always 🔥loving those black and white illustrations can’t wait for another one!
Exactly. Pushing through tough times is a signal you're ready for whatever life pushes your way and we really need to be ready for these things. Those who sit and complain usually don't achieve success.
It is a great video thanks for the great information and well delivered. This is exactly what I was looking for.
I'm about to graduate this year and have the overwhelming anxiety of being an absolute rookie in this industry with basically zero sense of what to do next. Right now I just want to express my huge appreciation to you. Thank you so much for making this.
Check out the pinned video on the channel page for extra guidance :)
I love the fact that you chose the exactly same points of the other video and made a counter pov of them. I really enjoy your channel and ur honesty! Tysm.
That is my approach exactly. I know many people hate it but I'm not here for the clicks, I'm here to make a change and that only happens if everyone is on the same page about the difficulty of things :) Thank you!
@@MalewiczHype of course! You inspire me, and I learned (and still learning) a lot. I'd be glad to work with u someday, if I got a chance.
@@kevyn.patrickDo you recommend any one to be an ux ui designer in 2024? Like I'm just 17, and I'm thinking to pursue a 4 bachelor's prg in designing specialised in ui ux
@@arnav_1290rYou see, I don't have any professional experiences yet. I just started this path (I'm studying since september 2023), and now I'm heading to the 6th UX Design course by Google (Coursera).
I'm 20 now, but I'm from Brazil. Here, it seems to be nice, actually. Maybe it can be a little hard to find a job in this field, but I believe it's not impossible. Idk how it is in ur country tho.
About university, I don't see why not. Like, ofc u can be a designer without having a degree, but if u do, it'll be superb. It's a way to prove ur abilities, and if it's something that you like, go ahead! Knowledge is never enough.
Sharing my plans with u: rn my goals are to find a first job as a UX/UI Designer here in Brazil, save money and try to study abroad in Japan (I'd love to live there and be a designer there as well).
So don't be afraid. You're young, the sooner u start, the quicker u'll be working with this =) don't give up just bcs it's sounds difficult, follow your dreams and do what you like. The world is getting better, we can have this now. GLHF =)
Amazing as ever!
This video is as good as the last one! Congratulations on having a responsible and global vision, and sharing it with us, Michal 👏🏼
That's my point. Some people say that saying negative things is some sort of a sales plan - yeah, sure - definitely more people will buy my courses when I say UX is going to be difficult to get to. Of course it's not my point. My point is to actually help people make the right choices through honesty and logic :)
This was by far one of the best videos I've seen 😍 Have a beautiful day, Michal 💌
Positive attitude but rooted in reality and logic. That's my approach :)
SMART idea of a sequenced vidoes. I liked it!
My heart throughout this video!
I have what it takes & I will work hard.
I'm about to graduate too and this got me both pumped and freaked out because you're right--you choose what you wanna be. Your effort, your company, your style, and your success is your choice. This video is so brutally and abrasively honest, but in a refreshing way. Because you know what, if you want to be a competitive and sought out designer you can't be lazy. And you actually have to be good. You outlined great strategies to stand out and I have a better gameplan now. Thank you so much for this!
Do you recommend any one to be an ux ui designer in 2024? Like I'm just 17, and I'm thinking to pursue a 4 bachelor's prg in designing specialised in ui ux
@arnav_1290r i do not 🥲 it did open other doors for me but at least right now the job market for a new UX designer is TOUGH. You will see that most of the positions right now (at least where i am or remote) will require 5-10 years experience. AI hype started booming while I was in school, and had I known how it was going to look like now I would have probably chosen something else
Yess 2024 is gonna be a great year 🎉
Exactly!
Would love that follow-up vid on freelancing and gaining more experience. Smashing that like button.
I already started working on it, when 1000 hits it should be ready :)
@@MalewiczHype Amazing! Big thanks for everything that you're doing 💪
Waiting for tomorrow 😍🥰
Thank you for saying the experience thing, because honestly i've been doing this for 3 years 😭 and Im a little scared, even tho I just landed a job recently after being lay off in my last startup
That is perfect! If you've been doing this a while you already have more experience than 99% of people so no wonder you landed a job. Congrats!
Thanks you michał for this great and motivating video! I want to be a unicorn myself and I'm developing from product management to UI and sales. It's a hard road, but the results come with each new project :) I like your approach to design. I read books every day, I develop and I want to be the best version of myself! And my dream is to be a designer in my own product 🙌☀💪
In your case I'm completely chill, I know you'll do very well because you have the right motivations and hard work attitude. It's a matter of not giving up and continuing!
My Motivation is Freedom and Freelance giving me this! :)@@MalewiczHype
Thanks a lot for your sharing, it's really valuable. At the beginning with the brain booming visual, I have thought that "Yeah! It's the Truth!". Your courses, books and CZcams channel help me a lot on the way I'm going on. Thanks and deeply appreciate your work!
By the way, can I ask what's your UTC time zone?
Glad to heat that! I always want to provide both sides of each argument and show what others pretend doesn't exist. I'm in southern Spain so the time zone is CET.
Absolutely 💯
Thanks a lot for your job. I've almost completed all of your courses and the 90-day challenge, and now I feel more confident in my design skills. It is the best UI courses.
By the way, maybe you could provide some certificate for people who have completed all your courses. I think it's a great idea to motivate us to purchase all of them. It's only a suggestion, but for an entry-level designer, all these stages are important, even though in the real world, it might not seem so crucial.
Although, all your courses are definitely worth buying, they provide a huge amount of useful and practical information. Thanks a lot, and have a beautiful day.
😉💙
That is a very good idea!
Waiting sir ❤️❤️❤️ most underrated channel truly i watch so many ui ux designer on CZcams LinkedIn Instagram no one has given as much as clarity as u give sir You told you have 20 year's of experience then I realised the power of your video 📷 you don't believe this sir i joined a startup among 12 candidates iam single person survived in the company every one were kicked in probation period and I am still working. There becouse of you sir please do more vv
Video on ui design please ❤️
Your experience is like tresure for us
Super happy to hear that! And your success only proves that had work pays off! :)
You're the best :)
You are!
I appreciate your truth in these videos, people should know that, but i want to add some things here, i have seen that, every digital field is too crowded now, so we have to be best in every field in order to get a good job, so it applies to every field, and you should also mention these things becase some people who are just starting, they will quickly get demotivated and jump to another field and after that this cycle will keep repeating, so what's your comments on that?
Hello. First of all thank you so much .Recently I am following you .I am exactly finding this content. But frankly speaking I am Beginner please make a video on best root /roadmap for beginners. I am waiting and exciting for this video. Please make it fast.
There is a roadmap pinned on the channel main page already.
@@MalewiczHype I can't find the pinned video for juniors, what is its title?
As my boss said - am good at what am doing, but I said: I want to be better. 2 years working at this company... 2 years before that just started learning design in evenings after my regular job. Somtimes I get into "Lazy load" when dont want to do anything in design. And then there is time when i want to learn new things to get better😅 so I'm just keep moving😊
Keep going! You don't need to be in constant learning mode all the time, but definitely try to learn at least one or two things per week.
Great video, thank you!
But how to make a UX/UI case study if i don't have users to do research on them?
You don't always need research and in some cases you can actually do small surveys on Twitter or Instagram based off a couple of initial design and then implement changes from that. Just be creative with the approach and the case study will write itself :)
Thank you so much for asking this question. How to do research without users has always being on my mind lately as well. Thanks for asking
thank you for this positive approach to the craft of design. I totally agree with you that a good basic knowledge, hard work, and having a good idea of what type of designer you want to be are important keypoints to keep your head above water.
Lately I see so many people who call themselves web designers, but meanwhile don't know what they are doing at all, have a bad website where the basic principles are already wrong, and meanwhile don't seem to be learning. It just frustrates me sometimes. I am so tempted to call them on it and explain what is wrong with their own website XD. Let me just focus on my own work, website and knowledge, I have more than enough work to do. :P
Do you think we should start learning front end dev if we want to increase the chance to land a job as a junior ?
That can help, or a no-code tool (or low-code). But what you can do before that is to try design freelancing. I have a plan of a couple of paths towards that outlined and working on a video on that right now.
I admire your work thanks man for your honesty about this industry. it's been a rough week for me to level my ui skills..
Keep at it and you'll do fine! I'm here to keep the motivated even more motivated :)
So, I recently studied front end development, but I have found it incredibly hard to find a job, as they all seem to be looking for mid or senior level developers, so I'm planning to learn ui ux but i don't know which tool to use, as I believe Figma and sketch are probably the best among developers.
But I was wondering if I should learn adobe XD even though it's in maintenance mode.
for any ui ux designers or develoeprs could I get your opinion on which tool to learn.
Skip XD, learn Figma and just play around with Sketch to know how it works. In the end it doesn't matter as much what you use but it's worth just knowing how to design :)
I do have it!
That's what I wanted to hear!!
I Have What It Takes and No one can Stop ME!
perfect!
Copy work is the great method to get better
After learning ui ux is it possible to do for freelance without job experience. Or first we should get job and experience then go for freelance . What do you advice ?
You can do freelance with any level of experience including lack of experience. There are plenty of companies that just need help, they don't care about your experience.
Do you have any tips for a situation where I have real life projects which i can show in my portfolio, but it was for startups with obviously little money so my research was basically stakeholder interviews and competitor analysis? Only one of those three even had usability testing, the others were just like waterfall - make them fast and launch to test on real customers.
Just show what you have. To companies it doesn't matter which exact parts you did, just the fact that you did real projects with their real constraints (and you can mention those)
@@MalewiczHype Thank you! and have a beautiful day!
What about if I'm thinking of starting UX this year (from industrial design) ehar shpuld i focus more on or docus less on? During studies and general skills ? Feels like educations are going to be qute outdated even if they try to keep up
Do you recommend any one to be an ux ui designer in 2024? Like I'm just 17, and I'm thinking to pursue a 4 bachelor's prg in designing specialised in ui ux
Song's name at 2:59 ?
Hey I graduated in 2022 with 0 zero work experience I am from commerce backgroud and I interested in designing do you think I am too late to have career switch at 23.
Haha this feels quite disingenuous compared to the "DO NOT learn UX" video. Not of these solutions are fixes to this broken industry. The "boring work" solution: spend time becoming a better designer, BUT WHY? So you can waist your new learned talents on drag & dropping the same old design system, or for the developer to strip your design of all that made it good? Also, as you stated, its an over-saturated market... its not like you can just quit your terrible UX job and get hired at some beautiful creative happy company. You literally have to take what you can get, and 99% of those jobs suck. I'm not sure what the answer is but it isn't staying in this steeply declining industry that's for sure!
My main suggestion is to make your own company or freelance - that way you still have the freedom to do creative things. I'm staying!
@@MalewiczHype Fair enough, you do have a very solid foundation of experience though and a hit CZcams channel. Newbies to the UX world, not so much. Also starting your own business or freelancing is a very difficult thing to do without money. Some luck involved as to whether you can build the clients/business. 90% of new business fail which isn't great odds. Not to be all doom and gloom but, its bad out there haha.
@@lucygilbertson3746yeah you won’t get far w that mindset
@@anam1645 I have a UX job..
Become an entrepreneur & create your own business out of your skills. Get creative.
Song name please!
How do i know that i am a good designer and i can get reall job not just a fake porfolio
Heyyy please do a video on how to get the freelance work and how to build experience as a beginner. Thank you
it’s on my todo list :)
Thank you kindly 😊
Brother i am stuck in design after completing cs degree and dont want to code. I need guide on what other fields i can try. If anyone see this i am in trouble. Appreciate it if anyone picks up this comment.
It Project manager
Campaign manager
Digital Marketer
Prompt Engineering
Ps : they are incredibly high paying bro 😉
Hi sir, can I work as a ux designer and front end developer at the same time?
Yes, totally. Especially as a freelancer that's a great combo!
@@MalewiczHype thanks sir 🥰
Hi, if you think AI will replace UX in 2-3 years, then do you think anyone start learning it if he doesn't have background in design or related field?
I don't think it will "replace" designers at all, it's what most designers fear. What AI will do is make a lot of design work happen faster so there may be less people needed but AI won't do design on its own. You don't need a design background but you need A LOT of motivation to grind super hard for 1-3 years to learn it before those AI tools become ubiquitous.
Is it possible to start with front-end and then shift to UX, is that a solid option or delusional thinking? 😀
I really resent unpaid positions even being offered by any industry. I wonder how it's not illegal.
NGO's and other non profits often don't have budgets for stuff like that and doing an unpaid project or two for them gives you actual experience so it's a win win for everyone.
Why is it important to work with manual-layouts, and not rely completely on auto-layout? Isn't proportional/balanced design a result of math at the end of the day? Can't proportion and balance be achieved by auto-layouts too? And what about the probability of human error that arises from using manual-layout?
Is the benefit of working with manual-layout to train the human eye + brain?
Yes, that's exactly the benefit + auto-layout sometimes messes up optical alignment. If you don't know manual layout you simply are not able to see when it goes bad.
New video editor?
Yes, for two videos as an experiment, I edit everything else though
Please prepone it
When looking for full time job and you get interview requests or rejection.
Ever wonder what the hiring manager, is a designer, you can't find their portfolio anywhere online. 🤔
Also, other designer manager's portfolio website and domain expired or the content is outdated. 🤔
Maybe you can freelance and update their stuff, think about it 😅
Freelance is a safe bet either way - you get experience, you get some money and once you get better at it you may not even want a full time job anymore.
@@MalewiczHypethat's correct
Thank you so much for the video, sir. Do you remember me? I was the one who mocked you for making a video about UX on Instagram.
Ok. Ok.
Tomorrow.
Am sorry to say but You guys are putting people mind in endless roller coaster… 😅
Learn this learn that …
Hold on …
You Still have little hope …😢
AI can never replace UX Designers. Never 👎
Sadly - it will. Not right now though and probably not very soon. But it will be able to do 98% of typical designer work within the next 2-3 years.
Truly forward thinking designers should embrace it and pivot into leadership roles - problem solving is a skill always worth having.
Seriously, subscribe to this channel
Seriously!!
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1:24 TOTALLY - companies would rather take on a post-graduate, beautiful girl with some idiotic diploma rather than a wizard with 15 years of experience costing 3 times as much. Generally, what has happened, is the thing that HR wanted to happen in the programming area only programming is too difficult to pretend you know what you are talking about.
I don't think they judge based on beauty at least not from what I've seen. They do judge by monetary value heavily though. And to many companies an expensive senior won't really change as much when they have multiple limitations.
Likes are near to 1000 start making video
Already started working on it. Coming in 2 weeks (as next Monday video is already done too)
Sure but how would i ever get a job when there's hundreds, sometimes thousands of people applying for the same ux position?
Do freelance and non-profit work first (that's way easier) and when you have ANY real world experience in your resume (not just course projects) you're suddenly in a better position than 95% of those "thousands of people".
Interesting video, but…
“My subscribers on average have a bigger chance to succeed in this industry.”
Any actual data to prove this claim, @MalewiczHype? I’m curious where the average comes from. 🙃
2-3 emails per day every day for 3 years from people either getting their first job or a promotion, some that started with me in 2021 are already on senior positions 🫡
Ok, great! Then that’s something worth mentioning I guess! 💪🙃
This channel is very strange. One video he tells you all the reasons to be in UX and in another video all the reason not to be in UX.
That's called "balance" or showing both sides of the coin.