How The Design Market Will Change In The Near Future

Design industry keeps expanding and developing. Nowadays, it’s not necessary to be a student to get the knowledge you need: almost everyone can become a designer if he has internet connection and is willing to learn, to practice and to create graphic works. Moreover, one doesn’t always need help of a designer to create a website since there are a lot of websites to get ideas on design and inspire. For example, here you can find some brainchildren on logo design for writers. Generally speaking, there are many other tools that can be extremely helpful; the key is to know how to search for them. It’s no wonder many existing and potential designers are worrying about their future. The machine design is already here!

Don’t worry, the design professions aren’t going to disappear, though the market itself will definitely change. In this paper, I would like to share some thoughts and predictions about the upcoming changes with you.

There Will Be More Self-Education

Actually, it isn’t even a prediction: we see a number of online courses/applications for beginners and professionals in many areas, not just the design. Moreover, we can see many talented self-taught designers successfully working on different online platforms like DesignContest. Obviously, this tendency will grow and develop. It would be easier to become a designer in the future, but at the same time it would be harder to promote yourself – after all, you have to really stand out from others to do so.

Designers Will Become Multispecialists

It’s good both for promotion and for business to be skilled in several different areas of design. These days we have designers working also as illustrators or designers that can create both websites and logos, for example. There’ll be more of them in the future as areas of design have already started to blur and merge.

Moreover, the designers will have to become skilled not only in various design areas, but in other fields too. Even these days you need to have strong marketing skills and to be a good psychologist to understand the needs of your clients and their target audience. In the future it’ll be even more important as the competition among designers will grow. The ones that have the most skills would be the most successful.

Clients Will Trust Designers More

Isn’t it what almost every designer dreams about? Well, this dream is going to come true in the near future: clients will trust the designers more, will give them more freedom to experiment and will listen to what they would say. This process has already begun and is progressing slowly, but surely: leaders of the companies see that designers are capable to develop bright ideas and start trusting their advices.

Design Will Be More Important

In the future design will become more and more important to companies. Nowadays we can see that large world companies follow the latest trends while redesigning their websites, logos, etc. At the same time, smaller companies start turning to designers to help more often, understanding that good identity and other design can help their businesses to grow. This tendency will continue in the near future.

Moreover, clients and partners will pay even more attention to companies’ designs. After all, a company that wants to look serious and respectable, has to invest in good design. In the future, this aspect is going to matter even more than now. The design budget will increase too.

Designers Will Be Able To Become CEOs

Nowadays there aren’t too many career options for designers: sure, you can learn different types of design, study illustration, marketing and advertising, be promoted to art lead or open your own design studio… and that’s almost all, probably. In the near futures, the designers can become business leaders (if they have necessary skills and desire, of course). That’s because they have a deep understanding of marketing tools and clients’ behavior and are able to promote business well. Sounds like a great career option, doesn’t it?

There Will Be More Design Tools

These days we have so many design software and tools that allow creating stunning designs in different techniques. But the design industry constantly develops and so the appearance of the new, more modern tools with a bigger number of functions is just a matter of time. Maybe they’ll help to simplify designers’ work a lot and we won’t have to count pixels anymore. Who knows?

Of course, the number of tools allowing people to create their own designs based on templates will increase too, but they would be less valued. So if you are a professional, who’s always willing to learn and to adapt to the upcoming changes, there’s no need to worry about your future.

Bio:

Brian Jens is a designer and a blogger, who’s been working as a freelancer for a long time before joining DesignContest team. He loves his work and so is always willing to write about the latest trends and changes in the design industry. Feel free to write Brian if you have some ideas that you want to be researched and developed.