Are UI/UX designers a meme?

no because programmers are autists that assume everyone is as good at using computers as them

t. programmer

Yes, there are entire legions of "educated" young people who went to "design" schools and jack off to kinetic typography blogs and design quarterly magazines and use pretentious terminology to refer to design elements that nobody gives 2 fucks about.
An ideal "UX designer" would know how to implement their designs in software or in typesetting so they could be more than just an "ideas person", but this is almost never the case.

>>57637826
And it's because of that shitty elitist attitude that most FOSS software is an unusable clusterfuck

Yes. Any competent programmer should also be able to draft up wireframes, storyboards, sequence/class/activity/state diagrams

>>57637779
>There are soft skill fields that rival my autistic field's salary, so they are memes

No, and this is the reason GNU/Linux will never become popular.

>>57637779
hobbyist here
do companies hire people to exclusively design UIs?

I have no idea what people are taught in design courses, but yes producing good interfaces are critical.
I had a course on human-computer interactions and I liked it a lot. Read one of Alan Dix's books

Yes

Fuck webdevs or anything the user sees desu

>>57637779

It's a hoax.

Back in the days the designers were doing their print media, but then the internet fucked them over and they all lost their underpayed cuck jobs.

And then the golden Photoshop days were also gone, because responsive web design was on the rise.

Full of panic they wer seeking for a solution, a way to prevent teh damagoe done to them by the bad programmers. But how? Even the dumbes apes knew that you don't put red words on purple ground, even the pajeetest newbie could make good looking jumbotrons.

Things were getting out of control. But then they centered all their meme power and in their anguish the great Kek spoke to them: "Your jpob is basically to invent things, right? So invent a niche! Be creative!"

And so they created new terms and spoke with heavenly tongues: "But how about the user EXPERIENCE?"

"The.. what?" the clueless programmers replied, working hard for their lousy dollars.

"The EXPERIENCE! I bet you donÄt even have a mootboard, right?"

"Well, the only mootboard I know I called 4cahn, but moot left some.."

"Nah, you don't understand give me your hard earned money and I will give you EXPERIENCE."


And that's how it all began and the designers weren't NEETs anymore.

>>57637779
holy shit just murder whoever made that infograph pls

and while on it murder everyone that looks like those faggots in the picture as well

>>57637779
>Visual Strenghts

>>57637779
>Are UI/UX designers a meme?
yes. it's all marketing bullshit

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Yes it's absolutely a meme, you don't need usability. Or documentation. Or source control. Just like write software.

>>57637779
>UX: reality
>UI: feelings

only one is valid