Is the web design profession dead?

Question

User interface

I looked at ads everywhere, only "Product designers", "UI / UX designers" are required. Do you mean ordinary web designers are no longer needed?

Answer 1

In fact, everything is very simple. Animal grin of slave-owning capitalism.
And this problem, by the way, does not only concern the designer. You need to adapt to these changes and expand your range of skills. There is a trend like this: one salary for performing the duties of two, three, etc. Human.
For example, now everywhere I see the experience and knowledge of PHP, popular systems for managing and implementing layout, and setting up a server in the duties of an ordinary layout designer.
In the backend, the requirements "good knowledge of js" and knowledge of popular frameworks (jquery, angular, etc.) appeared.
Read the memoirs of Jack London. When he was young, he got a job and began to do twice the work to earn more. The employer threw him a couple of dollars, and fired the second person. There was a serious crisis and the dismissed man hanged himself, as he had nothing to feed his three children. As a result, Jack London broke his health and could no longer work like that.
P.S. Now there are a lot of such young "Jacks", which affects the job market.

Answer 2

You raised a good topic.
Not so long ago I asked something similar, only in my context it was more about age, but the meaning was the same (I have been in web design for more than 10 years).
Once upon a time, it was just a web designer, layout designer and programmer (although the workbench used to do both layout and programming, and the designer used to do design + layout).
Now everything is simply divided, and web design has not gone anywhere yet (but over time it will definitely go away, I think so).
There is no pure web design , there is a UI designer (yes, it can be just a UI designer who draws buttons and all sorts of UI kits + graphics and color correction of photos for the site, and then we put everything in its place, but this, as it were, is more work than a UX designer). The fact of the matter is that UI and UX are very closely related, and a freelance designer must and even must know these two things + animation (very important)
A new profession has also appeared (it was, as it were, but not as popular as it is now) product designer this is something more than UI / UX, it analyzes more and then creates something, its functions are at the intersection of interaction design and research (essentially the same UX, only they pay more :)
Just like an animation designer or how fashionable is a motion designer now , when then this was also done by a web designer or a person who knew flash (it’s good that shit flash is a thing of the past :))
There are also prototypers, but this is also UX
Well, how can it be without a graphic designer, which draws all sorts of illustrations and graphics.
Well, yes, the content can also be attributed here, often the designer is also required to be competent in writing the text (and what he would sell)))
So web design has not really gone anywhere, but simply divided into industries, and now everyone is doing their own thing (but this is if the studio) and if you are a freelance designer, you should be able to do everything and even more .
And UI / UX in our time is prototyping, drawing sites (landos), interfaces, designs of mobile applications, stores, banners, icons, etc.)

Answer 3

What is a "regular web designer"? A form-slap that knows how to mold a page? So any designer already knows how to do this.
A web designer today is not just a keyboard octopus, it is a cross between a marketer, a web programmer, a designer and a business logistician who will interact with a team of interesting specialists when it comes to a large site. We are not talking, of course, about white people.

Answer 4

This is trash. You are not a web designer, you are an ordinary Photoshop master who thinks he is. We ignore the duties of a web designer - great

Answer 5

What do you think a web designer creates, if not the UI/UX of a website?

Answer 6

Drawing sites - yes, it is no longer necessary. Everything is already drawn. It remains only to take the appropriate UI kit and arrange it correctly.

Answer 7

Design is not a thing in itself. Design is done for something and with a purpose. In business, there is only one goal - to sell, so design should promote sales. That's why UX/UI appeared to make design for better sales.
The site is not an application, but in any case, the user interaction interface (give information, subscribe, call, buy, order, etc.), and not just look at a picture. If the interface is convenient, then the user is satisfied and will buy. If uncomfortable, then move on. Therefore, without UX / UI in any way.
Any business owner doesn't need a designer to draw beautiful but useless bullshit. And a designer who draws competent interfaces will always be in demand.

Answer 8

No, just recently they began to be divided into different categories. And in fact, a web designer is a general description that doesn’t say shit about what a person should be able to do :-) So google what is ui / ux / product designer.