I think I'm done. I lost my job (unfortunately right after getting a mortgage) and after 3 months I can't get anything else. I'm 44, got plenty of experience, just not the right kind it seems.

I think I have also lost my desire to do this work. It could be that my current predicament is shaping this attitude. One thing certainly is : the recruitment process. All the dumb questions, all the dumb rejections. Anyway, this could be it. I could be out of design after 20 years. id say only half were mildly enjoyable.

It's not a good career. It's not even well paid. I don't understand why people want to do this kind of job. You have to defend yourself all the time, you have to prove yourself all the time, the people you are designing for are often people without any sense of design but they still often make all the decisions. And after 20 years, the same problems, the same needing to prove oneself, it's like nothing I have done matters. And all I have done is design stuff for tons of different companies that don't really add to the world. I haven't done anything that matters even though I worked really hard.

I understand there is a possibility that some people have a really nice career in design and they are respected and elevated and get to be promoted to other positions of they want. Maybe it was just bad luck for me.

The situation right now its, I need a job. The Ux world doesn't seem to want me anymore. I have so much to offer, but I can't spend so much of my life giving to something that doesn't want me and is not giving anything back.

Edit: After writing this above I did a lot of soul-searching about what I want to do and where I want to go in the future. I applied to a variety of jobs. Pm jobs, business analyst jobs, UX jobs and some others too. I just figured , wherever fate takes me. At some point I got a 2 offers(!), one for a business analyst and one at It security: I have some technical know how, that was enough for them to give me a chance.

...but then I got another opportunity: a company was interested and they had need for a UX role. At first I just dismissed it, I was angry, I wanted a change. But everything there seemed right. They were chill, friendly, easy going. They wanted to accommodate me at everything. I had no other option to accept as the senior role paid more than the other two offers I got. Anyway, I'm back.

I understand now, that a lot of my previous thoughts around UX were based on my disappointment of not getting a job straight away. And it is difficult to get a job because of the strange landscape of this market. In the end, we all want a job where we feel appreciated, with friendly coworkers and challenges to engage us.

Right now, I think I have it where I currently am. Who knows what the future will bring.

The article examines how AI systems, by relying on predominantly western centric data, often reproduce historical power imbalances and cultural biases.

​Duolingo's Head of UX, Mig Reyes, announced that the company is replacing the term "UX Design" with "Product Experience (PX) Design" to better reflect its product-led focus.

Mixed reactions among designers, with some viewing it as a strategic rebranding and others as a marketing tactic. This change highlights the (pointless?) evolving nature of design terminology in the industry. ​

Cool article about Lean UX vs. Design Thinking.

Im usually closer to Lean UX, because of the nature of the work I'm doing (really fast iterations, no time for testing). Sometimes I wonder if Im even doing UX...

Anyway, both have their different place and understanding each, can help you use them to make your work better.

A guide to the never-ending list of fancy design roles—Web, UX, UI, Product, Service—what they do, how they overlap, and why companies keep inventing new ones.

Designing streets that make sense

In UX research, If you’re only looking for data that supports your point of view, you will find it. Great research challenges assumptions, uncovers blind spots, and leads to better decisions.

Cool video I found on truths about UX research.

I think jobs done remotely on a computer will be the first to go. People organizing stuff in complex systems, which often don't really add any value and exist only because some systems are old or unable to modernize, they will never get replaced.

All this saddens me.

Your portfolio isn’t just a collection of past jobs, it’s a showcase of what you could do if given the right opportunity. This video nails the point: instead of waiting for the perfect client, create a project that lets you flex your skills without constraints.

What really stood out to me was the idea of pushing it beyond a static mockup—actually building the project in Webflow, Framer, or even code to bring it to life. I haven't done that a lot, because its so time consuming and we have jobs, families, hobbies.

In the discovery phase of a UX project, a problem statement is used to identify and frame the problem to be explored and solved, as well as to communicate the discovery’s scope and focus.

Not sure I entirely agree with the article but there is a good point in there about understanding the constraints that development is bound by. But it takes a lot for designers to become proficient enough to do what they need in code, just as the opposite is true with developers doing design.

I've been doing UX and UI for many years. I just returned to it two years ago, having been an art director for about 10 years in between.

Its been really exciting for these two years and I'm even coming up to some new interesting projects, but a lot of times I'm really not feeling it. I think it's probably also because I'm alone in a small team. The team is great, ultra supportive, great bunch of people. Still, often I feel like my talents should be in programming somewhere. But definitely not web development. I've done that in the beginning of my career and I never want to do it again. I think that currently UX is best positioned to be one of tyne most important professions in the digital space. Our tools will evolve closer and closer to the actual apps and we will need less and less engineers between prototypes and final apps. Why would I want to be a programmer? I just have this jearning of writing stuff down in a code and that it works exactly like I want to. Design is flimsy by nature. It's not mathematics.

Its a weird feeling I often get. I like ux. I'll for sure stay longer and see where it goes.

Incredible the designs we already had. The technologies we went through and abandoned.

From the launch of Dev Mode, a new space for developers, to the introduction of variables for best practices adaptable designs, advanced prototyping features, auto layout updates, an improved font picker, and a redesigned file browser, Figma is revolutionizing the design and development process. Whether you’re a beginner or a senior UX/UI designer, discover how these updates can enhance your design workflow.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/456193

I'm working on a website (https://www.go2lemmy.com), which, with just a few clicks, would allow a user to automatically modify all their old comments & posts on reddit to be ads for lemmy. It's using oauth. Anyways, the backend code is pretty much finished, I just suck ass at design, so if anyone wants to work on it with me, you can add me on Discord: indictevolution

Should only take an hour or two I imagine for the design, not much to the site at all.

I was waiting for this tool to come out. Didn't really know what to expect, but looking at this video it seems pretty much useless. I don't understand in what situation I would use it? Joking around before starting a project, maybe for some feature inspiration?

Is Lemmys grey off-putting for you? Its really really grey. In the way something devoid of color is grey, not a cool grey that makes you think of a spaceship just before it fires a bright neon color laser.

I know I know, its like basic, rugged, kind of gives of the vibe that time was spent for more important things than that. And yeah, sure, there is that daylight option, but seriously, how many people don't use dark mode.

Lemmy is new (newish? I dont know I just got here). There are tons of stuff that could be done better. Currently the only android app for Lemmy on the play store Jerboa, that I use, has its growing pains. UX wise this one is the worst (excluding stability issues). I think that the right tripple dot menu is not needed and options there can be integrated to the hamburger menu on the left. The menu for choosing between all-local-subscribed should be a side swipe. We are only left with the icon for sorting which should look less similar to the hamburger menu. On the bottom I literally dont know what the house icon does. The bottom hamburger menu is sort of the same as the top one? Maybe merge these two into the bottom one. The bookmark function has way too big importance for what it is. Who bookmarks stuff in an app like this anyway?

Like this we would incredibly simplify the interface while making it more intuitive and faster to use.

What do you think?