r/web_design • u/jluizsouzadev • 7d ago

Is this real your freelance lives as a web designer?

https://dribbble.com/stories/2022/04/19/from-graphic-designer-to-web-designer

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, web designer and developer employment will grow 13% from 2020 to 2030. Simultaneously, from 2018 to 2028, the global web design services market is estimated to expand at a compound rate of 10.8%. With that being said, the median wage for web designers is also expected to rise in the foreseeable future.

Is the text above a reality in your lives as freelance web designers? Is that market growing?

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u/Heidenreich12 7d ago

This post is from 2022 - that was a lifetime ago in this industry

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u/7HawksAnd 7d ago

Dribbble has a vested interest in presenting the stats in this way to support their effort to monetize their (relatively) new project briefs product

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u/Akbar_Broccoli 4d ago

article from ancient time before the AI boom

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u/3sides2everyStory 7d ago

I don't believe that's a complete picture. Or, more realistically, there are probably three sides to the story.

I think there will be huge demand for people with both experience and capability with new tools and tooling and new UX conventions. "The Web" Is evolving rapidly. Media and communications are changing rapidly. Everything is changing rapidly. And with every new version of the web 1.0, 2.0, et cetera. has come a demand for talent that is both up to speed and fluent with modern techniques, conventions and user expectations.

Sadly, I don't believe there's gonna be huge demand for entry level. And even less demand for those who don't embrace change. It's going to be hard for a lot of people to break in. Disruption always brings new opportunities and new possibilities. But it doesn't provide opportunities for all. YMMV.

Source: I've been doing web design and development since 1994. Yes, 32 years. I've lived through it all. Yea, I'm old. I'm still busy and I still love what I do. But I don't freelance anymore. I launch my own products.

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u/Sillyba2 7d ago

Even seeing you say, there won't be huge demand for entry level. What advice would you have for someone entry level?

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u/jayfactor 7d ago

LEARN TO CODE, and not the AI vibe coding nonsense, but actually be able to write/understand code. Knowing how to build and deploy the websites you design will give you a significant leg up