Future design careers
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- vaxorcist0
Web stuff is looking more and more uniform these days... yet annother drop shadow and gradient and curved corner website with red and black in the color scheme....
Print may be a shrinking market in some ways, but there's a barrier to entry, as most web designers haven't had to worry about the way a printing process changes colors and the heI artburn of a bad press check...
I do think there will be an opening video market in between the youtube cat videos and the high-end 20 people production videos, but due to DSLR's shooting video, the barrier to entry is again very low.... talent may actually be the differentiator (really?!?)
- BattleAxe0
and then there is AR
http://venturebeat.com/2009/11/2…
- MSTRPLN0
Augmented Reality banner ad designer for mobile internet tv experiences.
- BIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD0
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"Print may be a shrinking market in some ways, but there's a barrier to entry, as most web designers haven't had to worry about the way a printing process changes colors and the heI artburn of a bad press check..."
And most print designers don't have a clue about interface design, ,usability , programming limitations/technologies or browser differences. So whats your point?- he doesn't like the way it looks, ergo it has no worthkelpie
- juhls0
Graphic designers are having the biggest problem finding a job over here. A lot of them end up going back to school for web-related learning.
- version30
something must be said about people in the print and web industry who can not use their selected medium to procure themselves a job. it's a fail before they walked out the door for the interview.
- ethanfink0
We live in societies based on technologies, and Marshall McLuhan is consistently proven correct with his Laws of Media:
every new medium:
1. extends a human property (the car extends the foot);
2. obsolesces the previous medium by turning it into a sport or a form of art (the automobile turns horses and carriages into sports);
3. retrieves a much older medium that was obsolesced before (the automobile brings back the shining armour of the chevalier);
4. flips or reverses its properties into the opposite effect when pushed to its limits (the automobile, when there are too many of them, create traffic jams, that is total paralysis).
Every new technology has these four effects on all of us, including learning technologies. If you dont understand the effects of the technologies that we use, how can you understand their pedagogical implications?
- dMullins0
This killed it for me:
"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."
There's an immeasurable difference between "half decent" and "professional as fuck."
- I don't know how the "as fuck" got in there. Too much Adium > Firefox tabbing I guess.dMullins
- Glad I killed it for you. I meant the gap between pro and amateur could tighten to the point where an average web user won't notice much difference. Surely a cause for concern?LukeO
- ... user won't notice much difference between the two. A cause for concern? Maybe.LukeO
- If half decent costs nothing, how much will business pay for professional? Less than it does now i'd think.LukeO
- 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.
- monkeyshine0
So it seems like in the nearish future designers might have to lean in one of two directions to suppliment design skills: either interaction/user experience or code...maybe a little of both. Seems like gaming is becoming more pervasive too.
- previous0
it's all going back to print, even digital will be print
- Pupsipu0
the future is usually better than the past.
As far as any repetitive job goes, sooner or later someone finds the right approach to automating or simplifying it and you don't need super skilled humans to do it anymore.
It's going to happen in some form, but it's impossible to predict the future in detail, we just know things will change.
- janne760
i once migrated to the web,
there was only room for a tent there.
- rzrffglyr0
The current hype around and usage of Wordpress alone is enough for me to believe that eventually India won't be the at the tailend of industry bitchin'.
Everyone saying the low rates from India, or students and hobbyists, that cheapen our profession, will take a backseat to free tools that allow the layman to create web experiences that are "good enough". Maybe even more than good enough compared to the extremely basic "brochure sites".
So I agree, if you don't evolve with the times you'll be left behind. Being able to design a website professionally still trumps over Wordpress templates, but to be honest, you're fighting against the times if that's all you do. The digital world, as has been mentioned, is now expanding to mobile, augmented reality, 3D more than ever, and user experience design with all the new tools coming out. Learn to design for these new mediums and in an intelligent way.
Minority report here we come, indeeeeeeed.
- EricStralow0
Plastics.
Actually, we'll all be something between jobless cyborgs and homeless robots by 2030. So don't sweat it.
- honest0
I checked, no jobs at the moment: http://www.futuredesigns.co.uk/
- magrenell0
Jeez, guyz.
I just turned 40 and am STARTING a career in design.