u/Roman_nvmerals wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Thoughts on UX kinds of boot camps? I don’t plan on looking to get into big tech but I’ve always been fascinated by the UX world, especially the research side of it. I’ve been working in Operations and CX with startups for the past 3 years, nothing too extensive. Prior, I was
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I don't know enough about Design bootcamps to give a very confident response.
Designers in general are also impacted by AI - both positively and negatively. AI lets engineers build pretty good designs using AI without a designer but AI also lets designers build out more stuff without engineers.
So the job isn't going away. The bar is very high though.
Like if you are a junior engineer being replaced by AI, the same thing applies to designers - if the designs are just textbook off the shelf HCI 101, then AI can do that too better than you.
I would enter design right now if you have extremely good 'taste'. Designers with good taste are just as valuable as senior SWEs.