UX jobs boring as shit
UX jobs boring as shit
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My own experiences as a former web designer: the major reason I jettisoned from digital in general was that after the glory days of the early noughties with all of that glorious experimentation, Flash, three-oh, etc, etc, etc, being an online creative was taken out of the hands of actual creatives, and into the hands of technical people.
And, frankly, I couldn't imagine myself trying to constantly re-imagine a fucking button or page layout on a Wordpress template every day for the rest of my working life.
In other words: Jakob Fucking Nielsen won.
Moving on to being an advertising creative was the best move I could have done, at least in terms of creative satisfaction.
- amenOBBTKN
- now i'm trying to focus more in illustration, infographics, animation and content creation than in UI/UX (don't like "the way it's taking")OBBTKN
- I focus on ad ideas/concepts and their executions (film/photo shoots, post-prod, claims, etc).Continuity
- Any time I hear someone in UX referring to their boring shit as a 'creative concept', I want to scream and bash their teeth in with a cast iron frying pan.Continuity
- Ha, that's usually how I feel when I see ad guys muse on how monumental their ad for sugary cereal is. :Dmg33
- Ha, that's usually how I feel when I see ad guys muse on how monumental their ad for sugary cereal is. :Dmg33
- Ad industry is full of swlf-important hard-ons for commercials nobody cares about, magazine ads no one looks at, among other things.mg33
- I majored in advertising but glad I don't work in it. I do enjoy using various aspects of what I learned with clients on projects.mg33
- That's "self-important hard-ons."mg33
- I came up from advertising...had studied it in college, and worked at agencies from '94 - '99...then got brought into a web consulting firm...exador1
- can't imagine going back. It was a lot of fun in my mid 20's etc...but I find this (web, apps, online etc etc) a lot more interesting.exador1
- and while i know a few UX folks that drive me batty, there's a lot of them that are pretty great to work with, and I enjoy that...exador1
- These days I've been doing a lot of UI/UX work and have found it pretty interesting..exador1
- I enjoy the kinds of UX projects where our impact isn't just cranking out designs, but where we are heavily involved in strategy, rebranding, new services, etc.mg33
- I'm fortunate to have worn lots of hats in my career that all combine to help me be better in the role I'm in. Jackass of all trades, master of some.mg33
- :) sounds pretty much like me, mg33 :)exador1
- And Uis still sucksince1979
- nielsen won because he wasn't attached to buttons but style indicators. lots of room there and he chose the lowest roaddoesnotexist