UX jobs boring as shit
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- Continuity4
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
- fate3
UX is terribly fucking boring. They have sucked all the fun out of web design, app design, anything remotely creative.
They've reduced us to pixel accountants.
- robotron3k0
Yeah, its boring, most switch to "product manager" for an even more boring job.
- yea, how do i do that? ;)futurefood
- ...as product manager you oversee UX peeps and do lot's of writing and write of details and specs for the coders. it just takes an opportunity to get into.robotron3k
- fate1
mg33 - I got into it because of the creativity of that period.
But it's long gone.
- imbecile-2
if you're bored, you're not concerned enough with the X of the U
- jtb260
I don't think UX is boring if you have the right mindset and interests. I gravitated towards UX because I got sick of listening to CEO's pontificate on color choice and being critiqued on kerning and leading by in-house pixel pushers.
Design is a super non-homogenous profession. You have different kinds of practitioners all across the spectrum from skilled graphic artists and front-end developers to purely academic user experience designers with minimal technical or creative skills. The folks dreaming up Geiko commercials and doing campaigns for Nike share a common vernacular with the folks designing the interface for paying your cable bills and you're doing your online banking; the two are worlds apart regarding the kind of value they deliver to their patrons. They're a different service and a different type of career. The later is super boring from a graphic design perspective but can be interesting and satisfying form another angle.
- studderine0
I can't tell you how many times I've talked to companies and "UX Designers" that have never conducted user research.
- since19790
ANd most UIs still suck. When Im in a crunch they rarely come through. Im looking at you Google.
- omg-9
Maybe its the company.
- cannonball19780
No, I mean looking at all of the listings for UX positions nationwide...
- sublocked0
I'm working a pretty challenging, interesting UX job and need to help hire another UX professional in either the Bay Area or Portland (no remote work). If that's one of you guys, hit my email.
- BonSeff0
gdammit
- sothere1
that's why they have started to put UX UI jobs together. Chalk always is better with some cheese.
- mg330
Continuity,
Can't fit all this in a sidebar comment but I think it's interesting that you mention "early noughties with all of that glorious experimentation, Flash, three-oh, etc, etc, etc."
I loved that stuff. Vir2l was like God status at the time. But that stuff was not sustainable. That was the Internet in it's infancy, tools in their infancy, and a wild-west approach to web design at the time. I remember countless conversations around 1999-2001 with people on Flashkit.com who thought they were going to get clutch jobs out of high school because they learned some of Josh Davis' Flash tutorials and could make stuff bounce at random on the screen. It was fun, I loved it too, but it was new media in it's infancy. Flash's coming of age moment was when they integrated XML and database connections into whatever release was new at the time. People started fusing creativity with actual purpose, things they could sell that weren't just eye candy.
That experimentation evolved as it needed to, for better or worse, but that era was not going to last forever.