New career review: web designer
What is the best career for someone whose main strengths are in visual design?
To start figuring that out we’ve released a new career review on web design.
Here’s a quick summary:
Pros
- Web designers can work on a broad range of high impact projects because they are in-demand across many types of organisations, including charities, governments and startups.
- As a backup, web designers can enter paths with good pay, like UX design ($80,000 median salary), and earn to give.
Cons
- Good design is hard to measure, which makes it hard to prove your abilities to potential employers, meaning entry and progression can be difficult.
Who should do it?
- You should consider web design if you studied graphic design or a related field; you’ve already spent several years developing web-design skills; and you are persuasive enable you to get a foot in the door when you’re starting out.
- However if you have the technical skills to do web development, we recommend you do that instead, since it wins over web design on most dimensions (salary, number of jobs, job growth rate, quality of work is easier to measure).
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