I. Industry Background UI refers to the overall design of human-computer interaction, operation logic and beautiful interface of software. UI design is developed with the development of software and Internet. The continuous development of Internet and software industry makes our life more dependent on the Internet and makes our life more convenient.
With the popularity of smart phones, the development of the 5G era, artificial intelligence, big data and so on, we can do shopping, eating, socializing, entertainment and other actions in daily life through mobile phones, and paperless office, distance education, medical care and so on can be realized through computers. It is the Internet that has brought us a smarter life. All these Internet products, if there is no interface, users will not be able to use them normally, so it is the UI design that brings us usable interface and convenient operation.
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The development of the Internet will naturally drive the development of related work, so will UI design, which is indispensable in the Internet industry, develop badly?
Second, market demand Market demand can best reflect the development of an industry, and large market demand also reflects the good development of this industry. We compare the development trends of fashion design, furniture design, animation design and UI design, and we can see that the market demand of UI design in recent years is much higher than that of other design positions. Therefore, in the design work, the market demand for UI design is still great.
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Note: The higher the curve, the greater the market demand and the better the employment situation. On the contrary, it means that there is less demand for such positions. This data comes from the statistics of recruitment websites around the country, which may deviate from the objective facts due to factors such as the stability of the crawling system, and is for reference only.
In addition to comparing the market demand for design, let's take a look at the demand comparison of UI design in other positions in the Internet industry. We choose several representative positions such as JAVA development, software testing and product operation to compare, and the market demand for UI design is not small.
The demand for UI design and JAVA development is less than the market demand, which is caused by the proportion of personnel in the project. Generally, the proportion of UI designers in a project team will be much lower than that of development. However, as can be seen from the pictures, the demand for UI design is often higher than that for product operation and software testing, so the market demand for UI design is not small compared with other Internet jobs.
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Note: The higher the curve, the greater the market demand and the better the employment situation. On the contrary, it means that there is less demand for such positions. This data comes from the statistics of recruitment websites around the country, which may deviate from the objective facts due to factors such as the stability of the crawling system, and is for reference only.
Third, the salary of UI design is a matter of great concern to many small partners who want to enter UI design. As can be seen from the figure, the average salary of UI designers in China is about 1 ten thousand. Compared with the salary of other design posts, the salary of UI design post can be said to be very good.
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As we all know, the average salary of most Internet companies will be slightly higher than that of other positions, because the development requirements are higher than those of other positions, and the work content is a little more difficult than their positions. We choose Web front-end, JAVA development, software testing and product operation for comparison, and come to the conclusion that the salary of UI design is not low in the Internet industry.
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Let's take a look at the salary changes of UI design. The salary of newly graduated UI designers is around 6200, and the salary also increases with the increase of working years. Generally, the salary of a UI designer with more than three years can reach 10000+, so it can be said that UI design is a very "rich" industry.
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Fourth, when the market demanded that the Internet just started, there was no professional UI design in the market, and most UI designers were transferred from positions such as graphic design. At that time, the requirements for UI design were not high, as long as you could draw pictures, and there was no emphasis on user-friendly experience and interactive design.
But nowadays, a good product should not only have a beautiful interface, but also maximize the user's operating efficiency, influence the user's operating habits through color tones, and clarify the primary and secondary display of product functions and product contents with colors or graphics, thus reducing the user's operating burden.
So what are the requirements for the most sought-after UI design on the market? What kind of ability does UI design need to have in order to get a high salary? The answer is full link design, which is a generation of UI designers who need to understand interaction and psychology.
Therefore, the key to determine the salary of UI design is the ability of UI designers.
With the increase of working years, the ability of some UI designers has not been greatly improved, and the corresponding salary will not be increased. However, some UI designers have grown rapidly through continuous learning and accumulation, and become hot projects in the market. Compared with the recruitment requirements of more than three years of work experience, high-paying positions require more, such as being front-end and understanding interaction.
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Therefore, after entering the UI design industry, we should set strict demands on ourselves with high standards, accumulate constantly in our study work, and get closer to our own goals, so as to make UI designs that will not be eliminated by the market and have better development.
Above, from the aspects of industry background, market demand, salary and treatment, and market demand, the development of UI design is simply analyzed, and it can be seen that UI designers will have an indispensable Internet post in the future, and the salary and treatment are much higher than those of traditional design industries. However, if you want to get better development in the field of UI design and broaden your career path, you must constantly demand yourself with higher standards. Only by perfecting oneself is the best and most stable development.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) Training cost Due to the fiery Internet industry, many small partners who want to change careers want to enter this high-paying industry. So there are many training institutions on the market. Learning programming is too difficult to be afraid of coding to baldness, and learning testing is too boring. Many small partners who want to change careers have turned their attention to UI design. So how much tuition does it cost to learn UI design?
When a partner with a design foundation first starts to learn UI design, he will not immediately find an offline training institution to study, but find an online course that matches him according to his own ability and spend the least money to make up for his lack of knowledge. I can't estimate this part of the cost, because everyone's foundation is different, the content that needs to be improved is different, and the corresponding learning cost will be different.
That's for little friends who have no foundation or want to take part in systematic training. If you choose online courses, the course price is between 2000 and 7000.
Because online training can't interact well with lecturers, problems can't be solved in time, and many small partners have poor self-control, so they will choose offline training, and the cost of offline training will generally be between 15000-30000. Generally, the price gap between different cities is relatively large. The training cost of first-tier cities is 20,000 yuan, and that of second-tier cities is 1.5 million yuan. The difference of other fees will increase according to the location of training institutions, environment, the quality of lecturers, the limitation of class size and different teaching methods.
Among the learning costs, the training tuition is only a part, plus the living expenses during the study period and the time cost of several months.
Generally speaking, training institutions can lend money, but we must pay attention to the loan contract and interest when lending.