UX Designer job posting, don't do this 😵
I saw a UX Designer job offer role for a company that makes game apps for kids.
When I scrolled down to read what will be the tasks the person will do I fond this:
"The selected person will be in charge of designing the interface for different educational games for mobile devices, the illustrations and creation of characters, as well as the promotional images and videos and icons of our games and apps."
I think they don't know what UX means and that is a general problem when companies are hiring.
What do you think about that? You found some dizzy UX job offers too?
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I think half the fault is on us, designers. We're the only ones that can educate clients and stakeholders on what UX means. Since a new title pops out every 6 months(UX, CX, UI, UX/UI, product, web, interaction, interface designer) I'm not surprised outsiders get confused.
Sure! That's the right way, but you have to be a kind of lucky to meet clients, stakeholders, managers, etc, that are open to understand this.
Definitely! Eventually, we have to be pragmatic and choose our clients / employers, or we'll lose our minds. But I come across so many examples of this lack of comprehension that I wonder if there's not something wrong with the design community and industry, almost at a systemic level...
Yeah, also we have to take into account it's a "new" role and lots of clients just haven't heard about this before.
At least they already state this in the job description. Obviously it's seemingly not really an UX role, but at least you know what you are getting into before applying. I am sure there many UX jobs, that looked like a real UX role job posting on paper and then people end up working on print designs for flyers instead.
I agree with that, I know two colleagues in that situation.
This happens a lot indeed like @taschmahal mentioned, not just for Ux, but any field in tech.
A designer needs to know frontend
A frontender needs to know backend
A backender needs to be a IT pro
IT pro needs to be devops
devops need to be manager
and visa versa, it's getting so out of hand, because we let it go out of hand.
We need to step up and say this is not what my job should be.
You're describing a perfect unicorn! 🦄
Maybe the way is to try to educate companies or client or simply say no to certain job offers.
Yes, all the time. Also, they usually confuse front-end dev with UX as well.
There is such a big confusion! I think companies want to hire that roles because are "modern" but they don't know what the roles are.