Have a brother entering sr year in college as product/industrial design. He wants to go for UX design (not necessarily UI design) and taking ux design class this fall. The school only offers one semester ux design.
What are some desirable/critical skills to enter the UX design world? If coding is a must/highly desirable, what language over others?
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Coding is completely overrated given the conflict that engineer driven designs create. Empathy is all he needs. A basic self education course in CSS/etc would go a long away.
I suggest getting a UX certificate from an industry authority like Nielsen Norman Group or General Assembly, and then just gobble up as many little projects as possible so he can build his portfolio.
Job market for pure UX is abysmal and designers these days are expected to be generalists who can do everything, as they should.
I was searching for an internship opportunity on my spare time, and it was difficult to find pure ux type. Most ux opportunities I saw required coding... and job function sounded more like software dev on UI side only...
Thus, it's best to develop skills that can be immediately useful to an employer. Strong command over visual design helps. It's not necessarily sufficient to get a job, but polished work is a good thing. A portfolio of elegant solutions to actual problems--as opposed to sweeping, overarching designs of an entire application, or, worst of all unsolicited redesigns of existing apps/sites--is quite welcome.
Everybody wants to be a big-idea person. Not as many want to dig in and solve the myriad of decidedly unsexy problems that businesses deal with regularly. Showing an ability to design for error states and edge cases is also desired.
As for why he wants to go for ux? I don't know. Maybe he found out about ux while he was studying as id.
As far as I can tell, there is no ux design major around here. Schools with design degree offers a course or two that are related to ux design.
I am not familiar with design world, but many people cross majors in engineering world. I am an aero major, but I was able to get eit in general and pe in mechanical. Quite number of people jump between aero, mechanical, and civil. I would be surprised if designers get stuck on their career solely based on their major.