UX / UI & Product Designer
You design digital products — apps, websites, software interfaces — using user research, information architecture, design systems, and interface design. This is the flagship architecture pivot: spatial reasoning, user-journey thinking, and systems design transfer directly, and mid/senior pay clearly exceeds practice. The extra step is a portfolio of 2–3 case studies plus Figma fluency, often via a short bootcamp — not a second degree.
The steps in this path
Common questions
No — a portfolio of 2–3 strong case studies plus Figma is the real gate. Many enter via a short bootcamp or self-study.