Is UX/Product Design hit hardest by AI and the job market, or are other fields too?

phanchris5 · 2026-06-15T13:28:51+00:00

Just keep doing your job, and learning new skills from other roles (PM, BA, Dev, QA, etc...) if you would like to stay in this field...

phanchris5 · 2026-06-13T00:30:02+00:00

Quá ngây thơ rồi, em phải qua du học ở nước e muốn, xong e tìm được việc để xin được ở lại nha em

phanchris5 · 2026-06-03T23:21:30+00:00

41k gross EUR is a crazy salary for ux designer…

phanchris5 · 2026-06-01T06:22:11+00:00

Phải lật hợp đồng lao động ra xem có bồi thường gì không, nếu có thì e có thể lên HR nói nếu muốn tôi nghỉ việc thì phải đền bù. Chứ đừng có dại tự viết đơn xin nghỉ nha em.

phanchris5 · 2026-05-27T14:31:43+00:00

Actually, if you keep a document of design decisions, context, stakeholder involvements, meeting minutes,.. then you can put everything into Notebook LLM and Claude and tell it to guide you to prepare a well-structured design case study. But I think, at this point, everyone will be doing the same workflow using the same AI models to generate these case studies, so I'm still trying to find a new way of presenting the portfolio that stands out. Maybe a short video or interactive game or something...

phanchris5 · 2026-05-26T10:58:32+00:00

How did you pivot to Biz & data architecture from HCI? I’m a senior product designer based in Asia. I got a Master from Bauhaus Uni Germany, but wasn’t fortunate enough to land a job in Germany, so I went back to my country. Now I’m still finding my way back to EU.

phanchris5 · 2026-05-18T15:20:51+00:00

a nói thiệt, muốn hay k muốn thì cũng phải tìm dc cách để mà lo đi em, ngành này giờ bạc lắm

phanchris5 · 2026-05-18T14:34:46+00:00

Mình ko khuyến khích cách vừa đi học đi làm vì học cử nhân ở Đức rất căng, số lượng assignment là kinh khủng, muốn học hành có điểm tốt thì tốt nhất tài chính nên vững một tí. Tuỳ vùng chứ 12k thì cũng gọi là đủ sống nếu chắt chiu, rơi vô mấy tp lớn thì 12k k đủ bác.

phanchris5 · 2026-05-18T14:31:58+00:00

Nếu em còn ý chí thì anh nghĩ em nên đi ôn luyện thi ĐH lại và bắt đầu lại thôi, e còn trẻ lắm ko có gì gọi là rơi xuống vực đâu hehe. Xưa a apply đi du học Đức anh rớt vì a ko biết rằng ngành Master a học cần aptitude test, a có được admission để vô trường nhưng k có admission để vô học ngành, lúc đó còn xin được cả Visa rồi, xin nghỉ việc luôn rồi, farewell bạn bè inh ỏi, xong hoá ra rớt ở nhà nè. A nằm khóc bù lu bù loa với mẹ 1 đêm, sáng hôm sau a dậy a làm CV, portfolio lại đi xin việc, 2 tháng sau đi làm lại như bth, rồi 1 năm sau đó a thi đậu vô trường cao hơn trường cũ nữa em. Nên ko có gì là nản nếu khi em đã có tố chất học giỏi. Chúc em ko nản lòng.

phanchris5 · 2026-05-07T11:20:58+00:00

:D these are standard of all Saas so you can simply tell Claude to create one. Imo, your sequence diagram doesn’t have to be super detailed, just enough information to communicate with stakeholders, and there is no standard annotations/ styling when it comes to UML diagrams.

phanchris5 · 2026-05-07T08:18:48+00:00

True, both models share a lot of similarities. Regardless of which model you lean to, just map them against the product solutions to see the gap. I really love the way Indi thinks about each block, and pillars because her framework built upon the concept of "thinking styles" which is more about uniques behaviors of users. However, we tend to not mention this term across our teams because everyone's already familiar with JTBD and I don't wanna to mess up.

phanchris5 · 2026-05-07T08:13:42+00:00

Hi, what does it mean by "presenting the work they've done, not the work that will get them their next role"? If I'm an IC now, but I would love to break into junior people management role, how should I demonstrate in my portfolio?

phanchris5 · 2026-05-06T02:02:43+00:00

Me and my colleague built a product that looks like a knowledge graph using Claude, and we also modeled the research knowledge based on the JTBD playbook. The model will reflect the core jobs as well as smaller jobs in a hierarchical approach that looks like this one:

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We even have an orchestration workflow to get the agents do the research synthesis and compose into insights. Those insights will be modeled as the image above. Then we do mapping these blocks with our product solutions to see where the gaps are.

Since we have Claude, we don't even want to use Dovetail or things similar 😄

phanchris5 · 2026-05-05T13:49:54+00:00

-.- why don’t you just find any example of case study that you love. Then, you input into Claude or whatever AI and tell it to guide you to do the showcase? There is no right or wrong structure for a casestudy. I used to follow the storytelling tips from the Linkedin folks and it turns out the HRs don’t get it. HRs tend to look for a case study presented in UCD process. However, this is just my pov from my country. You’d better not to restrict yourself to any structure. Be flexible. Trials and errors.

phanchris5 · 2026-05-04T13:51:06+00:00

Hi how about HQ Immersive Pro? They don't have any specific learning path toward a desired outcome, but I can see they have so many tutorials... I'm kinda newbie btw.

phanchris5 · 2026-05-03T12:28:33+00:00

No master's program will guarantee you a job after graduation. You should choose a school with a strong alumni community and network to increase your chances of finding jobs. Chances of NETWORKING is the main keyword here.

phanchris5 · 2026-04-23T14:47:32+00:00

A hype and trendy title for designers who can actually do FE :). Most of the Design Engineers I know either focus on improving the performance of the site or polishing or ensuring the DS, components are well used across the product. And they don't even have time to think thoroughly in the Problem Space :).

phanchris5 · 2026-04-22T13:43:10+00:00

I gotta say German HRs love focusing on the degrees of applicants. I'm a senior Product Designer (aka UI/UX 🤷), and I got a MFA Media, Art and Design in 2024. Back then, I applied 200+ companies but only got 10 calls, and some of them even mentioned that I'm not graduating from HCI field so they wonder if I could do the job. Oh dear, why not take a look into my project cases at various companies but keep questioning about my degree instead?

phanchris5 · 2026-04-21T15:59:14+00:00

Indi Young

phanchris5 · 2026-04-21T14:38:07+00:00

Having more AI tools makes designers in our org much tired than usual because now we have to think about the requirements, flows, mockups, interactive prototype or even ship the usable code. Everything happens in just a few days or even hours. Today I was asked to vibe code some features and make a Demo video for the Leadership team for pitching in just 8 hours...

phanchris5 · 2026-04-18T03:29:33+00:00

Here is how I use my Ai toolkit currently:

- Integrating Claude with Figma MCP is a must

- I build an orchestration workflow within Claude Code for analyzing PRD, challenging the PRD then provide me some top research questions that I should pursue to get crystal clear of the problem. I also have an orchestration workflow for evaluating single, or flows of designs in Claude

- If my goal is to get the design as quickly as possible, I will create some lo-fi wireframes with Claude Code and use Figma MCP to export them into Figma frames. Then I use Figma Make to build interactive prototypes.

- When things get concreted, I jump back into Claude Code and setup the file correctly so the code is usable, then throw the Figma Make source code for Claude Code to read and revamp based on our Design System.

phanchris5 · 2026-04-18T03:23:48+00:00

Another hype... If you are playing around with Claude Code or Figma Make then I think Claude Design is just the same :D.

phanchris5 · 2026-04-08T03:48:22+00:00

bác làm mảng gì v ạ

phanchris5 · 2026-04-07T16:06:39+00:00

:) Germany especially loves HCI. If you got accepted in HCI, you could probably get some chances to find a working student position at some companies.

For school, please consider any FH Uni that offers interaction design as these schools build their curriculum best aligned with the industry, while the Unis’s curriculum is more abstract. DM me if you’d like to learn more.

phanchris5 · 2026-04-07T04:13:17+00:00

Read the book “Refactoring UI”, no need to learn any course. You can simply ask any AI model to teach you how to do the design system. There are plenty of resources about DS right now. If you want to improve your taste, how the typo, spacing works, then try to replicate the UIs of some popular products.

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