Future design careers
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- ukit0
I think you are right, web design will cheapen and diminish in importance as the tools needed to create become more and more available to non designers. Most people these days are capable of putting up a blog or a simple site, and that trend will only accelerate.
Even though the Papervision trend kind of died down for the moment, I think the skillset of future design/ devs will actually be similar - being able to create animations and interactions in 3D space.
And yea, it will necessarily involve some coding (or at least knowledge of code) on the part of the designer. If you don't learn any programming skills you are probably handicapping yourself a bit, because while in a webpage paradigm it's fairly easy to separate visuals and interactivity, it won't be so easy in this future 2Advanced/ Minority Report type world.
Another trend is that people just finishing up school now are in a much worse place than those of us who graduated a few years ago. Besides the economy being shit, the market is oversaturated with designers and so a lot of people who aren't truly motivated will probably be forced to drop out and pursue something else.