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How To Become a UX/UI Engineer To Boost Your Career
What you can expect from a hybrid career.
Being a UX/UI designer for over 8 years, I always asked myself if it was enough of what I know. I’m able to ideate a new product, create a clickable prototype, and participate in research and testing activities.
UX/UI design is a creative direction in tech, but designers also use logic to create functionality for future products. The only downside is that we don’t create live products, but preview only.
That was my biggest problem. I wanted not to only create concepts, but implement them. During my collaboration with developers, there were situations when the final result was not as in the original design.
While I know that there are limitations in programming, sometimes changes aren’t connected to them. There are budget, deadline, and other factors.
Recently I started to think about my own startup. The major difficulty was the cost of development. Even if I create a perfect prototype, I need to pay thousands of dollars to implement my early MVP stage.
After thinking about all these factors, I decided to become a Full Stack Developer.
Why UX/UI Designers Want To Learn Coding
To be honest, there are even more reasons why designers start to learn to code. 8 years ago, I remember the HTML coder profession where you were required to know HTML, and CSS only to transform designs into static pages only.
Today we don’t have this profession anymore. Instead, HTML and CSS knowledge became a part of a Front End developer job title. Now he is responsible for not only working with programming languages but transforming the design into static pages as well.
This is a quick example of a change in responsibilities for a Front End developer. There is another example. In my early career, I worked as a graphic designer, then a Web designer, and finally as a UX/UI designer.
But I know all these different directions and some of my job titles required me to work not only with UX/UI (which is already a huge scope of knowledge) but with graphic design as well.
