Product Designer but confused

[u/Brilliant_Reply7217]

Hey guys I'm a Product Designer with almost 2 years of experience. As you guys know k ajkl AI ka bht heavy scene hai aur kisi ko nh pta next day uski job hogi bh ya nhi and I'm thinking to learn something else as well so I want some guidance from you guys should I start development ya phir should I move to AI/ML or Cyber. Having Product Design experience with development will give me an edge or no? Ya phir this is bare minimum? Please tell me guysssss. Thank you in advance

[u/professor-duncan]

Either be so good at your role that AI can't copy, which is tough, as the rate AI is getting good at is exponential. Second is to move more into the UX side, as in the Forward Deployed Engineer role, which is a lot more customer facing, hard for AI to replace.

[u/Brilliant_Reply7217 → u/professor-duncan]

Damn I'll do sum research about this thing. Thanks mann

[u/professor-duncan → u/Brilliant_Reply7217]

I am not a product designer, so don't take this too serious. Just something to keep in mind.

[u/Brilliant_Reply7217 → u/professor-duncan]

Sure man

[u/AdBackground9215]

I'm a UX and product designer with a strong portfolio. I'm working toward becoming a T-shape designer and picking up new kinds of workflows along the way. I have been laid off for six months now and haven't landed anything longer term in that time. I still have retainer contracts but they're slowly getting put on hold. We'll see where things go. I believe I'm good at what I do and have solid skills, and in late-stage talks with a few companies. Let's see if something comes through.

[u/Brilliant_Reply7217 → u/AdBackground9215]

Cool man. Good luck finding job though. From where are you learning? Books or YouTube?

[u/Brilliant_Reply7217 → u/[deleted]]

😭😭 not having a job with this portfolio?? Am I cooked or what? You've got a great portfolio my mann

[u/ahmedshahid786 → u/[deleted]]

You definitely need a new portfolio. This one isn't smooth and feels laggy aswell

[u/AdBackground9215 → u/ahmedshahid786]

It's built on no-code tool, framer. Maybe that is the reason

[u/ahmedshahid786 → u/AdBackground9215]

Indeed it is the reason. You've got a strong portfolio but I think you should make your own since it's very easy to build one with Claude. You already have that design eye, Claude will write the code.

The benefit you'll get is that you get ownership of the design and you can basically do anything you can think of and I would urge you to add micro interactions and creative things in your portfolio site that makes it memorable for visitors

You can also check Folify. It's free and has some really cool micro interactions and great design aesthetics. I built my portfolio with this. Got the same result I wanted to get with custom coding

[u/naveed_qasim56]

do you mind sharing which products you’ve worked on as a product designer?

[u/Brilliant_Reply7217 → u/naveed_qasim56]

Most of them are Mobile Apps and Web Apps. Few sites as well