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Outside of big tech I’ve never met a UX designer who wasn’t just a graphic designer. Not a single one.

Because lots of companies pushed their graphic artists and designers into UX roles without providing any training, expecting them to learn on the job. I saw it happen at every job I’ve had and heard about it from people I knew at other companies.

I don’t think work training turns you into someone who thinks logically about systems and about human psychology.

In my experience it doesn’t. I came at UX from the interaction design/HCI side of things so I was already generally that kind of person, but the people who came at it from the design side weren’t as strong weren’t as strong. They were still very good at design though.

Hello, it's me, ur guy (and surprisingly, I'm a part of the new generation!). There's probably dozens of us!

In my software development career I've always specialized on the UX, accessibility and platform convention side of the UI. I can't design any actual "pretty" UIs for the life of me :Dd

Inserted edit: Ok, totally forgot to mention that I am a full-stack dev, but definitely focus more on the abstract side of UI than the actual pixels on the screen.

Aside/relevant: Did you know that click-and-dragging a dropdown/select element to use/select/activate an action is an ancient cross-platorm pattern that was almost lost to time, because almost none of the modern web component frameworks forgot to implement it? Even more emphasizes the pop-cultureness aspect mentioned above :)

Ah, pull-down menus. I love them, use them all the time. Some modern web products actually implement them. Linear for example, and some UI libraries I’ve seen. I always add that interaction at the companies I work for, unprompted haha.

I have met exact one and the stuff he made was amazing

Same. He made the project so rewarding for us all.

How do I find and hire a UX person like this?

Recruit from top school masters program.

Hire an empathetic engineer and don’t have the write code.

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