Should shut ins, introverts eben pursue this career? I can laid out information and speak infront of people just fine, but my voicd is monotone and i lack emotions. I will never be a social butterfly, how important this is in this field? Also what about age ism? Can i still work this job at my 40-50s? Is this career future proof??? Thanks guys
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I dont know
you'll be fine. try research if design doesn't work.
any more insights? 🙁 thanks
This is insane! There's nothing I would personally like to see added to this. I'd actually love to learn how you did this!
yes, chris do has a monotone voice
chris nowack too
make it about the people you're presenting/pitching to
>should shut ins pursue UI/UX
Definitely, it’s a career that runs parallel to engineers and you can do the job from home so you’ll be dealing with other socially inept autists as well day to day
>I’m monotone and lack emotion
Shouldn’t be an issue. If you can talk to users while conducting research, sound intelligent, and do good work you’ll still be fine.
>how important is being a social butterfly
Depends on how aggressive you are about moving up the career ladder. Networking and shit will help you if you’re trying to become a manager, start your own studio, or find freelance work but if you’re happy lying flat then you don’t need to do any of that.
>can I work the job in my 40-50s
Of course, it’s a creative job so you’ll have a much easier time as a 50 year old designer than you would a 50 year old mechanic.
>is this career future proof
I don’t think creative roles will ever get phased out, manual and low skill labor is much easier to automate than creative work. You can always transfer into project management, research, engineering, or analytics if you wanted too. Everything is digital these days and anything digital needs an interface, so I don’t see UX as a career going away although the market is fairly saturated.
>I don’t see UX as a career going away although the market is fairly saturated.
it will see shrinkage as spare money disappears. there is no real need for 'research' and its results. there is no real need for half a dozen people to work on X. as time goes by design standards will be formalised and companies are going to just choose color schemes and fonts based on management preference and not focus groups.
it exists because fagman have so much money they can spend $1 million and 6 months on a new blue button for google pics menu and others think they also need to have this ability at whatever scale they can. economy shrinkage will end this.
after X years, all "good" design for mobile screens will be ironed out and ui/ux will just be swallowed by initial design and what programmers will accept.
Dude yes
I'm just an anxiety-ridden wreck who can deliver a coked-up pitch any time of the day but my UX work consists of shitting a bunch of ideas in Figma, setting up a to-the-point Powerpoint and throwing my dick on the table whenever there's a progress meeting
I did find however that UI is just a fragment of UX, you're gonna have to delve into (user) research and all that so maybe you're more of a front-ender
tl;dr: yes, but do drugs
what the fuck. these look genuinely amazing
You're basically busy talking to stakeholders, po's, customers and users all the time. Don't do it if you hate communication.
It's going to be hard for you. Design is a very, very social career.
It's also very ageist.
If you do it you're going to need to be very clear that someone else is going to have to run interference for you, give you requirements and then leave you alone.
If you want to age in the industry you have to lead teams otherwise you'll be too expensive and someone younger will do your work for cheaper.