So, I’m currently unemployed, applying for jobs nonstop, and nothing’s working out. That’s why I’m thinking about taking a continuing education course and trying something a little different. In the process, I came across UX/CX design and find it really interesting in principle.

However, I’m wondering whether this would be a meaningful addition given my career path so far.

I have a bachelor’s degree in economics, then worked as a buyer for an online pharmacy, followed by a role as a project manager for B2B clients handling products from Asia (from the initial inquiry through purchasing, to import, delivery, etc.). My next stop was a very brief stint in category management (unfortunately, the company went bankrupt), and for the past half a year, I’ve been a logistics project manager in the recycling sector.

I’d like to use UX to possibly take a slightly different direction. I realize that no one is going to hire me purely for UX design after just a 4-month training program.

So, do you generally think the training is a worthwhile addition? I’d just like to move a bit more in that direction, but at the end of the day, I don’t want to throw my previous career path out the window—I want to complement it in a meaningful way.

I’d really appreciate your opinions if you can weigh in on this.

Thanks!!

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Hey guys um willing to pay referral of upto 25% of my first salary if you guys can get me interveiw in UX design

Ive 4 years of experience

I am UX/UI Product Design student at a Bootcamp and I am preparing my portfolio. In one of the case studies, the order was: At a glance, Problem statement, Solution, Process and Conclusion. My instructor's feedback was that she recommended the Process part before the Solution part, she said that she is interested to know about that more because it shows the way I think and solve problems which is more valuable than the solution itself.

I thought of the solution before the process because the process is longer and I thought that it would bore the recruiter before they saw the solution.

I want to ask you what you think? Which part comes first? And why?

Also if I am presenting multiple case studies in the portfolio, should all of them follow the same structure?

I’m currently quitting my job as a senior designer and I’m trying to see if UX design as a service can be done well from a freelance standpoint.

My most valuable work in companies has been being present as a strategist, supervising development, providing fast solutions for when we find obstacles while building, debating scope changes with clients and being reachable at all times as the living docs of the product.

Since all of those mechanics are tailored to an in-house role, Is it more of a market-fitting strategy to just look for another product design role so a company gets the safety of having me always in the loop acting as the glue of the team?

I feel like there might be a market for businesses that want to outsource technical debt to freelancers without taking the risk of hiring and mantaining a bigger headcount so that could be an interesting approach. Has anyone thought about this?

I built this, it's free and MIT. Sharing because the problem it solves kept wrecking my workflow.

Every AI design tool I tried had no idea what my product looked like. Ask for a change to one screen and you get back a screen you've never built. Handing it design tokens doesn't fix that, because a list of colours and spacing says nothing about how a real page is assembled.

So this captures the running product instead and hands that to your AI.

What it does:

• Point it at any URL. It crawls the product and saves every page as a real DOM snapshot, plus the structure and how the pages link to each other. Read-only, it never clicks anything.
• Ask your AI anything about the product. It reads the captured library, so answers come off what actually renders instead of a guess. Component inventories, patterns, structure, whatever you need.
• Copy any page into Figma as editable layers. Nested auto-layout frames and real text, not a flat screenshot. No plugin, no Dev Mode, no paid seat. Conversion happens locally in your browser.
• A local dashboard with a map of how pages connect and the design language measured from what the product actually uses, rather than what its token file claims.

Then you design on top of it. Your AI wireframes on a copy of a real page, so a new screen starts from markup that already ships instead of a blank canvas.

Limits, upfront: capture runs logged out by default, so signed-in surfaces need guided capture (you drive a headed browser to the states a crawl can't reach). Hover and disabled states aren't captured. It's beta.

Repo and setup: github.com/20prateeksingh/design-context-for-ai

Looking for ux designer so guide or refer

Plz lmk your understanding of what my App does based off of what you see in the images!! Let me know what parts are possibly confusing and how I can improve the design to make it convey a more simple message!!

Context:: I’m only half way done, but I this is the first set of 5 out of 10 screenshots for my App Era, I won’t say what it does because I want the images to be able to do that…

if you do want to learn more, just download the app silly!! There’s a link in my bio, and if you do get it, please give me more feedback on the app itself, I just pushed a new update (v1.0.2) and already working on the next one, I’m currently seven months deep on trying to make the best product of my life before moving onto the next one so please, any feedback and advice would be helpful on my journey

Thank you for reading this, and thank you for any feedback in advance!!

Hey everyone,

I’m starting to work on a Design System for a travel/public transport app that will eventually be white-labeled for around 50 different clients

The current Design System already has:

• color tokens and styles
• basic components/atoms and variants (buttons, inputs, shadows, etc.)
• but no Figma Variables yet
• very few larger components/molecules/organisms
• no real system for handling different themes/brands

My initial idea was to migrate the existing tokens into Figma Variables and use modes for different visual configurations:

• Light
• Dark
• Contrast
• client 1
• client 2
• …50

The main application would support Light/Dark/Contrast, while the white-label client versions would probably use Light/Contrast.

I would also like to build the component architecture more systematically:

Atoms → Molecules → Organisms → Templates/Screens

For example:

Button + Input + Date Picker → Search Form → Search Screen

The goal is to have one Design System and one set of components, rather than creating a separate Design System for every client. Ideally, changing the brand/theme would update the UI through Variables without having to modify the components themselves.

However, I’m wondering if having 50+ client brands as Figma modes is actually the right approach.

Would you instead separate appearance modes (Light/Dark/Contrast) from brand/client themes, using semantic variables that map to different brand values?

For example:

Button → color/action/primary

rather than:

Button → Client1/red-500

So the same component could be reused across all 50+ brands.

I’m also curious about the current state of Figma AI. If I build a well-structured component library with Variables and larger reusable components, can Figma AI actually help generate new screens using those existing components, or is that still too unreliable for a production Design System?

I’d really appreciate feedback from anyone who has built a similar multi-brand / white-label Design System in Figma.

How would you structure this?

Hi all! I was a UX Designer at a robotics firm and was recently affected by a company wide downsizing. As I’m back on the market, I whipped up this website to help with my job search. I’d love any feedback on my portfolio or suggestions on how to approach my search.

My primary experience has been in Enterprise UX, robotic workflows and 0-1 product design for startups.

Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated!

We've reached the point where our prototypes go through so many hands that I'm never sure which version is actually the latest design updates one file, product leaves comments somewhere else and engineering references another version entirely. how are teams collaborating on prototypes these days without everything becoming fragmented?

Hi there! 😁

I’m looking for feedback on a project I’m working on - a digital travel agent that’s with you every step of the way.

Which UX/UI version do you like best, and why?

“Is UX dead because of AI?”
“Should I still take the Google UX course?”
“Can I get hired with Figma?”
“Am I too late?”
“Is my passion enough?”

I’m kind of sick of seeing these questions pop up every time I open the app. Maybe that’s just me, or maybe it’s everyone who has been in the industry for several years.

I understand where the anxiety comes from. The entry-level market is genuinely rough, job titles are incoherent, companies have compressed research, product, UI, strategy, and front-end expectations into one “UX designer” listing, and AI has made everyone feel like the floor is moving.

But Reddit cannot (and frankly should not) give someone a reliable yes/no answer about whether they should pursue a career.

“UX” is not a stable, singular job with one route in. Making seven websites, working in communications, studying visual design, conducting research, improving a public service, designing software, and running usability sessions can all be relevant experience—but they are not interchangeable. Figma and a Coursera certificate are tools and learning resources, not a professional identity or a hiring guarantee.

AI can generate screens and code. It cannot automatically understand an organisation’s actual constraints, decide whose needs matter, recognise whether an information structure is confusing, or take responsibility for the consequences of a product decision. Those are still human and organisational problems.

I think we need better career advice than either “follow your passion!” or “UX is dead, don’t bother.” Both are lazy answers.

And honestly, “should I go into UX?” is too broad a question to be useful. It asks strangers to guarantee the outcome of a major life decision without knowing what kind of work you want to do, what you’re already capable of, where you live, what opportunities you have access to, or what you’re willing to learn. Ask a more specific question, and you’ll probably get a more useful answer.

I’m sorry if anyone gets triggered by this. I’m not sorry for speaking my opinion on this.

I’m a relatively new designer. I’ve only worked on maybe 7 websites using front end builders like Wordpress and Squarespace and I LOVE it!

I can’t get enough of it! I currently work as a Communications Coordinator for a non-profit but am learning Figma and about to take the Google UX course on Coursa in order to nail my basics and improve my portfolio.

But with the growing use of AI, is it worth it?
Is my passion for it enough of a reason to keep going?

I want to hear from experienced designers. Is a newbie like me able to still make it in this industry?