What are the development directions of UI design?

With the development of science and technology, users pay more and more attention to the terminal experience of software, and UI design has become ubiquitous in human digital life, so the demand for UI design talents with comprehensive capabilities has also risen sharply, and the gap of domestic UI design talents has reached hundreds of thousands, and the career prospects and employment fields of UI designers are getting wider and wider. According to relevant data, at present, China's demand for software talents has reached 800,000, and it is growing at a rate of about 20% per year. In the next five years, the demand for qualified software talent will far outstrip the supply.

Development direction: mobile UI interface APP interface designer, print advertising designer, interface designer, front-end design engineer, software interactive interface designer, user experience designer, intelligent terminal UI interface designer until he becomes a product design director.

The future development of UI design is generally to be a mobile UI interface designer.

At present, domestic UI design professionals are still in a very short supply, and the employment rate is high, so many large enterprises have given high salaries and high benefits. And the future development prospects of UI design are also very broad, and they are very good. Of course, the employment direction of UI designers is also wide, such as:

Interaction Designer, User Interface Designer, UX Designer, Product Designer, Product Manager, Visual Designer, UX Researcher, Animation Designer UI Direction, and more.

What does the future of UI design look like?

First, the development of minimalist pseudo-3D, the smaller screen of the mobile interface forces designers to remove those fancy decorations and redundant content, give priority to ensuring the presentation of functions that have the greatest impact on business and customer experience, and make the design full of hierarchy and dynamics, so minimalist pseudo-3D will continue to develop. For such applications to be successful, they must focus on a very small subset of features, and minimalism is also reflected in the simplification of the user flow process, and the complexity of UI interaction must be simplified to make the user have a better experience.

Second, combined with the spirit of the brand.

UI design to a certain extent to grasp the soul and essence of the entire product effect, because of the banquet cheating, UI designers in the pursuit of simplicity in the process of simplifying the pursuit of simplicity at the same time, but also actually combined with the brand spirit of the product, into the product, so that the design becomes a living brand representative, the personality of the design at the same time, the brand implanted in people's field of vision.

3. Create a real sense of dust in the virtual world.

With the development of 5G, the plane and skeuomorphism will be combined to produce an effect of virtual reality, so that the user's perception in the mobile Internet world will continue to increase, and it is also to enhance the user's stickiness and experience of the mobile Internet.

UI designers can be divided into three development directions, they are: user research, interaction design, and interface front design.

The first is the user research direction.

User research includes two aspects: one is usability engineering, which studies how to improve the usability of products and make the design of the system easier to be used and remembered: the other is to explore the potential needs of users through usability engineering research and provide another idea and method for technological innovation.

User research is an interdisciplinary discipline that involves usability engineering, human efficacy, psychology, market research, education, design, and more. User research technology is to study products from the perspective of humanities, and to intervene in the development and design of products from the perspective of users. Through the study of the user's working environment and the use of the product, the user can integrate the user's expectations for product functions, design and appearance requirements into the product development process in the early stage of product development, so as to help enterprises improve product design or explore a new product concept.

It is the way to get user needs and feedback, and it is also an important criterion to check whether the interface and interaction design is reasonable.

The second is the interaction design direction.

This part refers to the interaction engineering between humans and machines, and in the past, interaction design was also done by programmers, in fact, programmers are good at coding, but not good at interacting with end users. Therefore, although many software functions are relatively complete, the interactive design is very rough, cumbersome and difficult to use. Using such software makes people feel fooled and humiliated instead of making people smart and progressive.

Many people have been laid off and unemployed because they can't operate computer software, and this interaction has made computers a feared tech monster. So we separated interaction design from the work of programmers and became a separate discipline, that is, human-computer interaction design. His purpose is to make the software easy to use, easy to learn, and easy to understand, so that the computer can truly become a tool that can easily serve human beings.

The third is interface design.

In the long development of software, interface design has not been taken seriously. People who do interface design are also called derogatorily"Art"。In fact, software interface design, just like industrial modeling design in industrial products, is an important buying point of products.

A friendly and beautiful interface will bring people comfortable visual enjoyment, shorten the distance between people and computers, and create selling points for merchants. Interface design is not just a simple art painting, it needs to determine the user, the use environment, the way of use and design for the end user, it is a purely scientific art design. The criterion by which an interface is judged is not the opinion of a project development team leader, but the feelings of the end user.

Therefore, interface design should be closely integrated with user research, and it is a process of continuously designing satisfactory visual effects for end users.

1. Mobile UI designer - APP design and theme design on mobile phones and tablets, the current mainstream UI design. Because of the rapid development of the mobile Internet, many companies mainly focus on mobile apps, so learning is mainly from the mobile terminal.

Two: PC UI designer - software and web button design on the computer, PC UI designers are mainly based on computer software interface design, for the time being, most netizens mainly use the mobile terminal.

Three: Game UI designer - the interface design on online games and mobile games, this is relatively difficult at present. Because at present, China's game shooting market is mainly monopolized by Tencent and NetEase, and the company's requirements for game UI designers are also particularly high.

However, the high demand will also be higher, and the game UI designer is currently the highest salary among UI designers.