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List of success metrics for your UX design career (or any career)
We all measure success metrics when it comes to our designs, but have we stopped to think about measuring success for our very own design careers?
Success is a very difficult list of conditions to define. I struggled a lot writing this because of the realisation of how personalised one’s definition of success can get, but like any keen analyst, I’m here to share some methods and data points in which you can look at in order to determine the results of your current career path.
When I wrote “Still can’t get a UX job? Give up”, it was targeted at a very specific group of financially struggling UX aspirants.
These people were the ones messaging me on LinkedIn, begging me for my help in employment because they were claiming to be starving and near the state of homelessness.
How true their extreme stories are, I am unsure. But when you have hit an absolute rock bottom, re-thinking your choices and giving up is much wiser than pressing on.
Similarily, when “UX Design is not going to save your career” was published, I mentioned signs of failures getting into the industry and recommended setting up a “Stop-Loss”, a.k.a your maximum tolerance, so you know when to stop and move on.
And it begs the question, if you are not failing, how do you know if you are successful?
So today we’ll be exploring the topic of success in your design career.
Metrics you can look at and how to measure them
I am personally an analytical person; I am grounded by logic rather than emotions, and I prefer looking at numbers as proof instead of variables others can influence.
That said, I am not a data science expert nor a mathematical genius. So this entire list is just my recommendations. It is not a holy bible to follow but a guide you can reference.
In case that is not obvious, the above is a disclaimer.
Summary of metrics
- Money
- Salary (%) growth in years
- Hourly salary based on hours spent at work
