 Is UX design oversaturated in 2023? This is a really good question that I've just been asked in a live stream and I thought I'd just explain my answer a little bit more. So it's not as easy to get a job in UI UX design now as it was before like kind of when the pandemic hit because a lot of tech companies were hiring then and obviously UX has boomed since then. If you go on Google Trends and type in UX design you'll see that in the past five years it's probably like three times well popular now that it was before. But before you kind of put off from the idea it was still competitive before and hopefully I'll give you some tips now on how you can stand out and get a job because it's not like there are no jobs I've just done a search on LinkedIn and there's over 10,000 going and it's just that there's more competition for the jobs but that's okay I've hired UI UX designers before and I teach online a UI UX course so I know what basically you need to do to get that job. So let's think about how you can stand out first of all. The thing I've seen is a lot of people okay it's more it's more popular now than it's ever been before but there's a lot of low quality designers and your job is essentially to stand out above the ground and also I've noticed a lot of people who come into UI UX design are actually looking for a shortcut and then the portfolios aren't that good when I'm hired a junior designer I get a lot of low quality so here's some tips on how you can stand out so when you apply for a job the most important thing there are two things that you need so the first thing is you need a relevant qualification that is to essentially get you in the door and to get an interview that's the first thing and there are three things you can do so like me you could do a university degree which takes you know at least four years and you probably need some experience before then and that's going to cost a hundred grand at least then you could do an online bootcamp they cost about ten grand I don't know what the quantity is like but I know that people get jobs or have been getting jobs from them although it's not guaranteed and the other one is you could do an online course like course careers which is one I teach which is less than five hundred dollars although it's looked at equivalent as a bootcamp but the goal of my course and what I teach everyone is that once you have that qualification I guess the certificate that gets you in the door and then it's your portfolio which is actually more important to hiring managers like me when they're looking for a job and what hiring managers are looking for in a portfolio is it's made up of case studies so you can actually get a free portfolio at Behance and you can have your own website but what I'm looking for is case studies and they're essentially kind of like stories of projects that you've worked on and if you're hiring a UX designer you're basically looking for as many UX tasks in those case studies as possible and that's basically including research like personas, empathy maps you want to do some surveys, some questionnaires you want to do some sketches, wireframes, high fidelity prototype you don't want to test it with your friends and family you want to make improvements based upon that testing and then essentially you want to do some handover documents to developers that is what you want in case study so if you actually type my name in Anthony Conboy, Behance have a look at my latest project which is a case study that I build on my course and you'll see that's an example of what a best-in-class case study looks like I'll actually leave, I'll link it in the description so you can have a look and that is what you want to build and you want three of them and the reason I say it's not that important that it's oversaturated is that you're actually going to do more work than everyone else this is the most important job to get on the ladder which is the junior role, it's the most competitive and after that you can then work your way up the ladder