Future design careers
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- LukeO
I'm a print designer currently migrating to web. One of many reasons for migrating was the feeling print is nearing it's expiry date. Not enough work, too many people who I wouldn't call talented competing for diminishing budgets, loss of effectiveness, etc blah blah. I wanted out.
Then I thought, what if the same thing happens to web work? I read about thinks like Wizz it, and I believe the likes of WordPress and Indexhibit will only become easier to customise to a point where anyone with a internet connection can design a website that looks half decent to the casual eye.
So what bothers me is the thought that web work in a few years time will be in a similar scenario print currently finds itself in and I walked straight into it, again.
If you think the above sounds like load of bollocks then please say - I'd be a happy man. I'd be interested to hear thoughts on whether you think web will have a strong or diminished careers market in the far-ish future.
- doesnotexist0
if you can't find print work you're doing the wrong print work.
- I'm doing alright. I've just noticed I'm turning down a lot of web I can't do, and print pay and demand is stagnant.LukeO
- ********0
print is the future
- ********0
Remember the type setters. REMEMBER THEM
- Not_Just_Another0
I reckon I got a similar worry but nothing in the near future. I just wonder how long you can keep designing for before you're considered too old to be current and therefore get left out of pitches etc.
I don't see many old(er) folks in studios and the UK government is talking about raising the retirement age to 70+!
What job do you reckon you'll do, once we've been put out to pasture?
- bad english - sorry. didn't proof before hitting broadcast...Not_Just_Another
- User Experience-ish stuffkelpie
- yeah, could be considered a 'consultant'.. just a worry that we'll be superseded by young 'unsNot_Just_Another
- the thing is, younguns suck.scarabin
- LukeO0
Marketing!
- ********0
I reckon also
- flashbender0
mobile is the future.
and 3D
If you want to know what the future needs will be concerning design follow the coverage of CES and see what direction consumer products are going.
Flexible tablets will most likely be the next big thing. First they will just be eReaders, but they will continue to advance just like everything else.
http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/01…
Just like the newspapers in harry potter!
- ukit0
Pretty soon oil will run out and then there will be no electricity and then print will be big again.
- print will be the last of our probs when the oil runs outSlashPeckham
- doesnotexist0
you still have to make things look good- if you're limiting yourself to 'print' you're doing it wrong.
- GeorgesII0
All I can say, I don't really want to work in this industry anymore.
- monkeyshine0
people change. seasons change. it's been so long...oh sorry, had an 80s song moment
...but people do change as do seasons and the great thing about being a designer in these times is that opportunity abounds if you are open and flexible. These are exciting times, imho.
- I, for one, hope to never experience another press check (shivers).monkeyshine
- ********0
If you dont go your own now, its VERY hard to go on your own when you are in your 40s when you are too old for agency.
- typist0
i bet my money on 3d, video production and motion graphic
think about china is cutting all analog tv boardcast in 2012
there is a huge demand for digital boardcast production in all sorts- german company did for cctv china
http://v.youku.com/v…typist
- german company did for cctv china
- kelpie0
Digital is going to swallow absolutely everything over the next while, to an extent we might find hard to fathom even now.
Our physical resources are dwindling, and our population is increasing, so our opportunities to do what humans do and gain gain gain are running out. If we want to continue to feel that we are increasing our experience and ownership of things we value then those value transactions will come increasingly in the form of digital/virtual transactions.
I dare say there will be less 'websites' as we know them in 15 years time, but far more of the things that everyone does every day which they take value from in some way will be designed, digital experiences. From choosing which TV program you want to watch tonight, to getting your groceries in, to your relaxation time and everything else which touches your life in any kind of resonant way.
There'll be no shortage of work for anyone who knows how to skilfully facilitate human interaction in those spaces.
- blaw0
- LukeO0
I don't want to be a designer in his forties who is slowly forgotten and eventually found dead by cleaners in his chair. I've seen it happen a few times, not the dead bit, but I'm not going to let it happen to me. Suppose that's why I'm asking the question. I want to be ahead of the curve next time round, not behind.
- jazmine0
if web runs out, i'm going to transition into making chairs by hand. people will always need to sit.
- Food! We all need food. I''ll grow veg. Foolproof business!LukeO
- Mayan Calendar predicts people will not have legs in the futureBattleAxe
- < all the more need for chairs then!jazmine
- i'm going to market fresh air...SlashPeckham
- BattleAxe0
I saw a presentation on web enabled tv's that tap into today's leading sites in terms of traffic (youtube, twitter , facebook ) but the manufacturers are hoping more people step up and provide worth while content for there tv's to tap into coming from the web
also I could not agree more with mobile is the future , so there will always be a need for a eagle eye designer and back end developers