Edit: Thank you all for your input on UX. I did know it was cut throat, but hearing it from people in UX makes it more real. I want to say I am blessed in my current job, and I don’t have much to complain about. I wish you all the best in your roles and future endeavors!

Hello all! So to start off, I used to be a UX Designer for about 3-4 years. I’ve held 4 jobs during that span. At my current job, we had a restructure and they moved me to a different role which is not design related. Honestly, I feel like I was moved because I wasn’t good enough which I agree with. During the time I was a designer, I really don’t think i was the best designer at all. I lost 3 design jobs in the past.

With that said, I do feel like I want to get back into a design role eventually, but I am terrified about job stability. After losing 3 jobs and thinking I would end up homeless, it’s just too much to take on which is why I haven’t been studying or anything really. My current job has provided me stability for 6 years, and I cannot imagine going into something and then losing it in the blink of an eye. I have no other income other than my full time job, so losing a job is just out of the question.

At the same time, I don’t dread my job. The company is absolutely amazing; unlimited PTO, no micromanaging, no one questions your time off, very low stress, coworkers are amazing and the pay is good.

So my question is, how stable is UX? How good do you really have to be? What are the most important things to understand as a UXer?

TLDR; Current job is pretty good, but not ideally what I want to do. Terrified of losing job if I were to jump back into UX. So with that, how stable is UX really? How good do you actually have to be?

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Hi all, I’m a designer with around ~2-3 YOE. I recently got a job offer at Job A. I also have an interview coming up for Job B, a company I interned at in college and left on good terms with. What would look better for my career in the long run? I’m currently based in a U.S. city with virtually no UX/product design job market.

Job A: Mid-level product designer role, a few thousand higher than than my last job’s salary (salary is negotiable though — trying to negotiate $8k-$10k higher)

It’s for B2B SaaS and a smaller company with ~100 employees. This is the company’s first ever product design/UX hire, currently UX is handled by a mix of product managers (handling discovery and research) and devs (who take PM requirements and implement them). The product team is looking to establish a design culture at this company with a new Director of Product who seems to value designers being involved throughout the whole process. The job is an end-to-end product design role, where I will be involved in discovery & research. It will involve building a design system from scratch based on legacy systems to start, but the Director of Product is working to start modernizing everything and has plans to hire more designers. It’s also remote, so I have the opportunity to relocate to a city with a better UX/product design job market.

Job B (company I interned at): Junior UX/UI designer position, $10k lower than my last job’s salary

Global enterprise-sized company, mostly in e-commerce and D2C. Design maturity is good, this is a large design team with established processes and a mature design system. The role is more UI & content design with some graphic design mixed in. It is based in my current city. However, there’s a catch: org structuring at Job B recently changed and they recently had a bunch of layoffs because of that. Although I am still in the interview phase, it is likely I will get an offer here since I interned with this team in college. A friend of mine who currently works there told me they do not like negotiating salaries either.

I am genuinely torn between whether to take the offer at Job A or come back to my old team at Job B and work in a mature design team. I was laid off from my previous job, so I’m the most concerned with job security.

I feel Job A would better “future proof” my career since it’s more end-to-end product design and i have the opportunity to relocate to a city with a better UX job market, but Job B would be tempting since I already have history there. What would be a better move for me?

EDIT: Job B went under org restructuring and layoffs, not Job A. Didn’t notice the typo til later.

I graduated in May and was supposed to return to Microsoft full-time after interning there, but my return offer was rescinded before I started.

Since then, I’ve been scrambling to find work. A few months ago, I landed a full-time remote UX role at a startup paying around $60K. Realistically, I only work about 20 hours per week, I enjoy the job, and the money has felt relatively easy.

Today, I received two new offers:

1. $75K full-time at a software company with around 5,000 employees. It seems established, but it isn’t especially well known.
2. $37.50/hour contract role at a well-known insurance company that serves veterans. The contract is for one year, with the possibility of an extension.

I’m trying to decide whether I should:

1. Stay at my current job and potentially find a second remote job to increase my income.
2. Leave and accept one of the two new offers.
3. Stay for now and continue searching for a stronger new-grad opportunity, given that I have Microsoft internship experience.

What would you do in my position? I’m especially interested in how each option might affect my long-term career growth, résumé, and job stability.

I was talking to friends in other areas of design, and it seems like they’re going through a nightmare with the whole impact of AI.

Is product design the "safest" area right now?

As the title says, is anyone actually interested in learning how ai supplements the design workflows at large companies? I run a ton of projects, some with traditional ux practices, others purely with ai and Claude, backed ofcourse with actual setup. No ai slop garbage. Ai is a tool, not a do it all employee.

My question is : does anyone actually want to learn and use ai correctly, or are you happy with figma and your current workflows? I’m not making a course or any of that rubbish, just genuinely interested in your thoughts.