The wave of the Internet, whether it is the front wave, or the back wave has never stopped. Every product under the Internet, whether PC or mobile, whether traditional or non-traditional industries, the final presentation should be based on the UI interface for users to use to view. This is not only to visual output, but also good interaction and user experience. Therefore, UI is everywhere in our lives, no matter how big or small, it exists in what you see, you touch the experience. So UI is not just about aesthetics, but also about visualization and user experience. And users are very picky, the demand for visual and experience needs are constantly changing and improving. So this also creates UI designers such as UI designers do not need to knock code, but still can get a high salary of Internet positions.

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I. What is the UI design salary?

Now attached is the average salary of UI jobs in the national region, the data source of the job set recruitment website.

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From the picture, we can see that the national average salary of UI design is in 10,000, such salary treatment compared to many traditional design industry has been a big high. If it is a first-tier cities, the average salary of UI design will be even higher, such as the average salary of UI design in Beijing as high as 1.6K.

Of course, the UI design industry is not everyone can get a high salary, and do not want to be only because of the high salary of the second choice of UI design, you want to get a high salary you need to have a high salary job requirements.

Two, UI design industry status quo

In fact, the UI design industry is not everyone can get a high salary, most of the people in the industry are now facing some of the dilemmas:

1, too much reliance on imitation, the work lacks creativity, can not create high efficiency to the enterprise.

Most designers receive the task, the first time is to go to the material site to collect the same case, and then from the many works in the choice of a more satisfactory, followed by a variety of imitation, during which a small number of people can add some of their own creativity, but most of the people are just a change in the color of the font to change a bit on the hasty delivery. Do out of the work is not only no creativity, and even colleagues to take out to do product promotion or send a circle of friends is also difficult to give users a deep impression, and thus can not give the enterprise publicity to bring real value.

2, the design industry overtime serious, no time to inject new sources of inspiration.

The most important thing is the designer's time, a fine design out to spend a month or two is a common thing, and during the period of overtime to repeatedly modify the daily commute is completely occupied, so the cycle of designers simply do not have the time to inject new inspirations, there is no input, talk about the output.

So for beginners, imitation is certainly a necessary basic skills, is also a basic process of learning, but you can not just do the mover. But you can't just be a mover. Instead, you have to think, why do I choose this work for reference? What is the composition of this work? What is the advantage of its use of color? Why does it make a visual impact?

For UI design such as the need for innovation, want to go deeper, get a high salary, or even want to own a piece of work on the price of hundreds of thousands of dollars, then must be creative. Creativity for individuals, but also not innate, but through a large number of observation, collection, analysis, and thus summarize the refinement, accumulation, the formation of their own unique style, is the pursuit of every designer.

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Three, UI design need to have what kind of ability?

UI design belongs to the Internet industry, the Internet industry in general salary level is high, but not all UI design can get a high salary. Want to get a high salary UI design jobs, must have the ability to get a high salary jobs, high-paid UI design is not simply all the material put together, but the need for design basis + inspiration + creativity, design in line with the characteristics of the product to meet the design specifications of the interface.

Let's choose some UI design job postings, and see how different the requirements are for different salary packages. Then we will extract the keywords in the job requirements and summarize what kind of ability UI designers need to have.

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The above shared some of the recruitment requirements of the high salary positions, you will certainly think that once you join the industry is impossible to get such a high salary, why only analyze the high salary positions. I would like to tell you that if you want to change your career first and want to sustain in this industry, you should aim to learn from these high salary hiring requirements so that you will be more likely to sprint for a high salary in the future.

Summarizing the above high-paying recruitment requirements, UI design not only need to understand the design, interaction, and even code, AE production of dynamic effects, as well as illustration, hand-drawn, etc., UI design also has a new name "full link UI". And, with the arrival of the Internet, Internet of Things, 5G, artificial intelligence, big data, each product needs UI designers, and the arrival of VR virtual reality, artificial intelligence, the need for more, more professional, broader knowledge of UI designers.