I've been wondering for a while now, why on social media there seems to be a labor gap in developer positions.
For a team of 10, probably 1 is UX/UI and the rest are developers. Is it that user experience is not considered enough these days? Or is it that it is divided into the wrong roles?
Is being a generalist then the right thing to do?
What do u think, or what are your teams like?
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You are making the asumption that all other than you are developers. This is not true and is why you feel that your are under representated as UX/UI designer.
In people you called developer, there is a FrontEnd developer, BackEnd Developer, maybe a database engineer, a DevOps, a techLead... . Each are specialized in one domain like you. They can surely work in another domain, like backend developer make some CI stuff but this is not their speciality.
A lot of experienced developers have plenty of history with many different things, and may have been doing UI/UX for as long or longer than someone specifically assigned to that role. In my experience, restricting yourself to just one 'hat' means you never really grow. Teams work better and produce better results if everyone gets involved in whatever they feel comfortable doing.
Assigning people very specific 'roles' within a team is a recipe for arguments, and a sub-optimal product. Back when I started web development, there were no back-end developers, no front-end developers, no devops, no UI/UX designers... just developers - everyone got involved in pretty much anything and everything. To this day, if asked - I just say I'm a developer. Pigeonholing yourself is the route to stagnation and boredom.