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Discussion on: Sloan's Inbox: Considering a career change from coding to graphic design, any advice?

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Joe Mainwaring

While I'm firmly on the engineering side of things, I have built skills in design over the years to make me more versatile with contracting gigs.

Hypothetically, if I wanted to switch fully into design today, here's how I would likely approach it to maximize my overall experience:

  • Focus on UI/UX design over general graphic design
  • Become very familiar with the feature in design tools which exports designs as code to enable me to either hand off my design work, or build on-top of the designs (ex: add JavaScript functionality to drive interactivity)