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Designers & age

over 5 years ago from Joao Carvalho, UX Designer

  • Nemanja NenadicNemanja Nenadic, over 5 years ago

    I'm 30 years old (doing this since my early 20s) and I'm sick of AR's, VR's, UIs, UXes, Prototyping and other buzzwords. How you should code this/design this articles and such... WordPress ninjas, Development rock stars... So it's probably more a point of view than an "age issue".

    But I still love finding new ways to do stuff, learning new frameworks and tools that help be get s**t done.

    One thing I'm noticing is, even tough I'm Web Designer, lately, I enjoy development part of my work more than design parts.

    Maybe that's where I'm headed, maybe it's just temporary...

    2 points
    • Ken Em, over 5 years ago

      Yeah, the buzzwords are a bit much. When did "ideation" and "let me show you my works" become a thing?

      2 points
    • Interested Curious, over 5 years ago

      The interesting part of this is that it's a combination of things but a lot has to do with the model of workforce not adapting to how rapidly tech is cycling and how much the workplace, work force retention and workplace learning is changing. I feel like it's a complex discussion that effects a huge amount of industries especially to ones as focal to business creation as the types of design.

      Also the closer entwined you get with marketing the more floodgates for using as many acronyms as humanly possible in a single sentence becomes a thing sadly.

      0 points
    • Liam WheatonLiam Wheaton, over 5 years ago

      TIL new technologies are buzzwords lmao

      3 points
      • Nemanja NenadicNemanja Nenadic, over 5 years ago

        It's not about new technologies as much as overusing them. UI, UX, prototyping etc. is nothing new and we're overwhelmed by self proclaimed gurus and their medium/twitter/facebook/blog posts.

        We're in an age where people talk more about their work then they actually work.

        11 points
        • Interested Curious, over 5 years ago

          Oh thats definitely always been the case, I just feel like it might be easier to share it and that people are being taught that its the only way to get hired.

          Fellow designers tend to be jaded, while the onlookers from outside may feel like "hey he's got a blog and some followers, this guy knows his stuff"

          0 points
        • Bruce Vang, over 5 years ago

          I like the information sharing that we have. There's a high demand/low supply of information on new technology and tools. I don't need to learn from a PHD. If it's taught by a certified school, it's already old.

          0 points
        • Adetunji PaulAdetunji Paul, over 5 years ago

          We are also in an age where it's nearly impossible for young designers to get noticed for work opportunities without being reputable online. Which as they're trying to tell us is by living two lives, one online and the other in the real. It's something like a wall I've come up against many times but it's driven by the clientside habits. When i get recommended for work, my clients Google me first, and those first 3 results are the difference between hired and pass on most days. It's just the way life is now.

          3 points