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UX Design is not going to save your career

An open letter to those joining the industry wearing rose-coloured glasses

Melody Koh 🤔
Prototypr
11 min readMar 2, 2023
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When I wrote my article, “Still can’t get a UX job? Give up”, it was unsurprisingly met with a lot of controversy. I get asked why I always seem so negative with my views, and why I seemingly won’t stop discouraging people from joining the industry.

Look, guys. My perspectives aren’t anything new — Senior level professionals have been trying to address the untold truths that are self-evident in the design industry. It is not done as an act of discouragement to the potential new joiners in the industry, but rather as a written record of the overall challenges and hurdles designers of a particular generation have faced.

It might seem like I’m overall just very negative about the industry and its developments — But I am literally just recording what’s happening through this medium. If it’s provocative, good, because that’s the whole point of why I invest my time writing anything about the industry.

These journals written by me and other design writers serves as a reference for design students in the present and for the future. So you can try and stop us, but we’ll keep writing, thank you.

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Written by Melody Koh 🤔

Senior product designer ⭐ I write provocative things because I am a provocative person | Follow on LinkedIn: https://shorturl.at/fwyQ0

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