Which is better, UI design or web front-end learning? Which is more promising?

For most people, front-end and UI design are feasible directions for switching to the Internet industry. So which is better, front-end or UI design? Let me briefly analyze it with you today. I hope you can learn more about these two occupations from the following contents, so that you can choose the development direction that suits you according to your own wishes.

Introduction to UI and front-end UI design: Full user interface, referred to as user interface, refers to the overall design of human-computer interaction, operational logic and beautiful interface of software.

Front-end: it is the process of creating front-end interfaces such as web pages or apps to present to users. Through HTML, CSS, JavaScript and various derivative technologies, frameworks and solutions, the user interface interaction of Internet products is realized. Generally speaking, the front end is customer service, mainly to communicate with customers (users).

As can be seen from the above, in fact, UI design and front-end work complement each other. According to the project process, usually the UI designer designs the product interface, and the front-end engineer realizes the interface through coding. Generally speaking, UI designers are like fashion designers, and development engineers are like tailors, both of which are indispensable positions in a complete Internet project.

The front-end mainly needs to master the front-end language, framework and so on. , are all coding work. UI design belongs to visual design, which needs design foundation, design thinking and design skills. The two are not a category. It can be said that the front-end is more inclined to software engineering, computer science and other majors, while UI design is more inclined to visual design, graphic design and so on.

Second, the prospect of UI and front-end With the development of the Internet industry, it is also driving the development of jobs in the industry, so UI design and front-end development have good prospects. Then let's take a look at the UI design and front-end market demand curve, and intuitively feel the demand changes of the two positions.

Note: The higher the curve, the greater the market demand and the better the employment situation. On the contrary, it means that there is less demand for such positions. This data comes from the statistics of recruitment websites around the country, which may deviate from the objective facts due to factors such as the stability of the crawling system, and is for reference only.

As can be seen from the figure, the demand for UI design and front-end is basically the same in previous years, but it has changed greatly in recent years. In the last two years, the demand for front-end is higher than that for UI, and in the last six months, the demand for UI is higher than that for front-end design. Therefore, the demand at both times is great, but the time period is different and the demand is constantly changing.

Then through various comparisons, the difference between UI design and web front-end is obtained:

1, with different educational requirements.

As can be seen from the data collected by employees and friends, the undergraduate degree of UI design accounts for 49%, and the junior college degree accounts for 48%. But for front-end development, undergraduate education accounts for 765,438+0%, and junior college education only accounts for 28%. Although education can't represent everything, it has to be said that education also has a certain impact on salary.

2. Different work experience requirements

According to the data of Youji, 49% companies require 1-3 years working experience in UI design, while all front-end companies with 4 1% require 1-3 years working experience. More than 3 years working experience, front-end development is far greater than UI design. The demand of the front end of working years also reflects the working experience and skill proficiency to a certain extent, so the salary of different working years will definitely be different.

Third, both need skills to understand the brief information of UI design and front end. If we want to change careers, we also need to know the conditions for changing careers. That is, what skills need to be learned to meet the criteria for entering the industry.

1, front end

Zero-based front-end development is conducive to getting started, and quick entry can immediately see the learning effect, which can greatly improve the interest in learning. However, it does not mean that the front end has no technical content. We should not only learn the front-end foundation, but also learn mainstream frameworks such as vue.js, react.js, react-native, Flutter, expand technologies such as three.js and typescript, and dig deep into the principles of analytical frameworks. Even knowing the back-end knowledge can reduce the communication cost at work.

2.UI design

Nowadays, UI should not only understand interactive knowledge and graphic design, but also understand code, AE production dynamics, illustration, hand drawing and so on. So UI design has a new name "Full Link UI".

From the above analysis, it can be concluded that front-end work is slightly higher than UI design, but the requirements of enterprises for front-end education and work experience are also stricter than UI design. You can't choose your direction just because of your salary, you should choose according to your actual situation and interest.

The front end is a technical post, and the technology is constantly improved and updated with the change of time, and UI design also needs to learn the latest design knowledge according to the popular trend of the market and the change of design requirements.

In fact, no matter what direction you choose, you should continue to love this direction and keep learning, so as to adapt to the market demand and have better development.