How is the UI design major in Lanzhou Xinhua Vocational School?

It's still very good, from teachers to teaching environment.

Speaking of the prospect of designers, I think it is still very beautiful. UI designer is the starting point of career, not the end point. As long as you can enter this industry, you have the motivation to grow and work hard enough, you will have a chance.

1, the talent market is in great demand.

According to the data of 10 month in 2020, there are165,000 vacancies, and the market demand for such talents is still great. With the trend of Internet becoming more and more obvious, UI design will also penetrate into all walks of life with the network. According to this logic, the market demand for UI design will remain hot in the next few years.

2. Talking about the prospect of UI design depends first on the prospect of the Internet industry.

As a position in the Internet industry, UI designer's career prospects follow the overall development of the Internet industry. At first glance, the current mobile Internet industry is saturated in all fields, and each field has one or several head products in a monopoly position. For example: chat has WeChat and QQ; Make friends with strangers and explore; Is there a US group ordering food? Are you hungry? Looking for a job, there is a Boss and a hook; The office was nailed; Brush the video with Tik Tok, which is faster automatically. ...

1. There are constantly subversives in the old field.

Take e-commerce as an example. In the past, everyone thought that after Taobao/Tmall and JD.COM, the overall situation of the e-commerce market rose in Pinduoduo, and now there are also fast-growing love stocks outside the mainstream market.

2. Times make heroes

SARS in 2003 made JD.COM. This year, affected by special circumstances, not only telecommuting, fresh take-out, online education have sprung up, but also remote CP Twilight products.

3. internet plus is booming.

Internet plus sounds aloof, but it is more than just a slogan. The internetization of traditional industries is undergoing profound changes. For example, many products of Internet+medical care are developing very well.

Well-known products in Internet medical industry

The real estate industry, which sounds completely unrelated to the Internet, has also launched an online shopping model this year. Large housing enterprises such as Evergrande and Country Garden have their own Internet teams.

Hengfangtong App, selling houses through the Internet mode this year.

Voting with your feet is also very telling. Internet industry is still the hottest industry today.

The career development path of UI designers

The following is a picture of a friend of ours commenting on director UED's PPT, which talks about the growth path of designers:

As a UI designer (including interaction designers, etc. ), you always start from a junior position and become a chief designer. Then you can choose professional line or management line.

Choosing a professional line means looking for senior designers, design experts and so on. If you take the ranking to correspond, in Ali's case, the feelings of P8 and P9 (of course, it is still difficult to achieve P9 regardless of business).

Select the management line from the team leader to the director, and then manage the business to the general manager level (called by different companies), corresponding to Ali, which is equivalent to P 10.

Take two of our friends for example:

Dai Yusen, one of the founders of Jumeiyoupin, was born as a designer and later listed with Chen Ou.

Dai Yusen and Mr. Ma Li are on the live show.

Teacher Liu Yaping was originally a Google designer, and now she is the senior vice president of Momo products.

After entering the workplace, UI designers can get in touch with the relevant knowledge of user research, interaction design and product managers and do things as close as possible to the company's business when the company framework and time and energy allow. There are many examples from design to product to product director or other management. The future of designers is not necessarily just designers.

5. Learning can be divided into the following four stages.

The first stage is the foundation of art, that is, sketching and hand-drawing, which is of great help to the later UI design.

The second stage is the software level. Nowadays, UI designers generally have to master the following softwares, such as PS AI AE AXURE.

The third stage is the theoretical aspect. This is a little more content, such as color matching, typesetting, font design, three components, consumer psychology, communication, mind map, prototype map, interactive logic, specification, cutting map, understanding program, internet thinking, user experience and network marketing.

In the fourth stage, you can master the theoretical software, that is, copying works and original works. Then, I will continue to do projects, participate in various UI competitions on the Internet, work part-time in some part-time websites, and go to Internet companies to do UI design work. Since then, I have been visiting some good design websites, such as Zhanku.com. If you persist for a long time, you can gradually improve your design level.

With the above four steps, you may not become an expert in UI design, because what you need to learn above is very slow if you only learn by yourself sporadically. What's more, the competition on the UI road is also very strong. At the same time, we must have strong patience, be able to endure hardships, be persistent, have confidence and be single-minded. Only in this way can we study.