A data-driven approach to understand the UI Design career. — In this article, I present a data-driven analysis of the UI Design career based on job ads from companies such as Peloton, Seat and Ubisoft. When a company is hiring a designer, what do they look for? What do they expect a designer will do? …

A data-driven approach to understand the Visual Design career. — In this article, I present a data-driven analysis of the Visual Design career based on job ads from companies such as Accenture, Amazon, Frog, Google and Motorola. When a company is hiring a designer, what do they look for? What do they expect a designer will do? …

A data-driven approach to understand the Product Design career. — In this article, I present a data-driven analysis of what it means to be a Product Designer. The analysis is based on job ads from companies such as Apple, Facebook, Ford, Netflix and Paypal. When a company is hiring a designer, what do they look for? What do they expect…

A data-driven approach to understand the UX Design career. — Originally published at designcareer.co In this article, I present a data-driven analysis of what it means to be a UX Designer. The analysis is based on job ads from companies such as Amazon, Apple, Eletronic Arts, Ikea and Microsoft. When a company is hiring a designer, what do they look…

This article is divided into four parts: Intro — Some background information about design career. Present — What is happening in the job market during the Covid-19 period. Past — What happened in the job market since February 2019, when I started running a job board and newsletter for designers…

UX design is all about improving the experience someone has with the company. How about using these ideas to improve the candidates' experience? — #1 Apply for a position on company X. #2 Wait. #3 Wait a little bit more. #4 Do not hear from company X ever again. #5 Ignore all future jobs from company X. This is the experience a lot of candidates have after applying to open positions. For the recruiters…

Originally published in the Ornamo (Finnish Organization for Designers) blog As a researcher at Aalto University looking at the job market for designers in Finland and abroad, I have two good news for designers: First, the number of jobs for designers in Finland is growing. …

Or, why the future of design is moving towards in-house design departments — A quick search on Linkedin shows a trend at tech giants: More and more designers are working at in-house design departments. Nowadays, there are more than 7 thousand designers at Apple, 6 thousand at Amazon, 2 thousand at Facebook and 6 thousand at Google. (LinkedIn data) This trend towards in-house…

Interviews are one of the primary sources of data in design research. I’m sure you did a couple, I did a few also. It’s direct, easy and quick to get the answers. This is the good thing about interviews. However, there is the bad part. It takes time to schedule…