Can an interface designer become a product manager?

Question

Project management

Judging by familiar products and published product market research, they are either from development or product analytics. In addition, all vacancies in normal offices require a technical background (and often a technical education). Do designers become products at all?
Designers are paid 1.5-2 times less. It is not very easy to distinguish a good design from an average one, and few people are ready to pay extra for this. And it’s not clear whether it’s worth changing shoes halfway at the age of 27 and going to work as a conditional analyst trainee, having fallen in income by more than 2 times?

Answer 1

If the goal is a large, unlimited profit, then you need to open your own business. At the same time, you can hire a product manager. The bottom line is that he will be on a salary, and all the mega profits will go to you. But this is only if successful. And if you fail, you will lose. Therefore, it is a risk. Thus, if you want very big money, you will have to play this dangerous game.
If your goal is stability, then it is better to stay in the current place.
If your goal is stability with a high salary, then it is better to become a professional in your field. At the same time, it is better to do what you have a soul for and what you are ready to do not for the sake of money, but for the sake of the cause itself. The field of activity is practically unimportant. At some point, you just become cool, and you can manage other people and train them. Lead. Or just a very respected unique specialist who can do what no one else can.
Can you boast that you are a really cool interface designer? Can you guarantee that your solutions will significantly increase the profit per product? Are you 1 in 1000 in the market? Then just ask yourself the appropriate price.
And having changed the field of activity, you will have to plunge, for example, into mathematics, numbers. Are you ready for this? It won't be too boring? After all, you have to go headlong into it in order to grow.
As a compromise, you can stay in the current area, but at the same time begin to be interested in another area. Read articles, books, make relevant acquaintances, get a specialized education in courses or as a second higher education, etc. If you have the strength and confidence that you are interested, then why not? In any case, additional knowledge will not be superfluous. And whether you have these forces and desire, decide for yourself.

Answer 2

Even a person who was neither a programmer nor a designer can become a product designer, but from the very beginning he studied in the direction of project management.
A designer can also be technically savvy, or rather, he must be, otherwise he will not understand how interfaces are developed, which means he will not be able to draw a normal shell for them.

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