Career Map

Where do you want your design career to go?

Explore roles, understand the skills required, and see the moves that connect one design career to the next.

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Product / UX

Content Designer

Content Designers shape the words in a product — labels, error messages, onboarding, empty states — so the product is clear, consistent, and easy to understand.

Design Systems Designer

Design Systems Designers build and maintain the shared components, patterns, and guidelines that keep a product's design consistent and let other designers and engineers move faster.

Industrial Designer

Industrial Designers design physical products — from consumer goods to furniture to devices — balancing form, function, ergonomics, and manufacturability from first sketch to production.

Interaction Designer

Interaction Designers specialize in how a product behaves and responds — motion, state changes, and the details of how an interface reacts to what someone does.

Product Designers own the end-to-end design of a digital product experience — understanding the problem, exploring solutions, and shipping a usable, well-crafted interface — usually working closely with product managers and engineers.

Service Designer

Service Designers design the end-to-end experience of a service across every touchpoint — digital, physical, and human — not just a single interface.

UI Designer

UI Designers focus on the visual craft of a product's interface — typography, layout, color, and componentry that make it look and feel polished and consistent.

UX Designer

UX Designers focus on how a product is structured and how people move through it — information architecture, user flows, and interaction patterns that make a product easy to use.

UX Researcher

UX Researchers plan and run studies that uncover what users need, how they behave, and whether a design actually works for them, then turn those findings into decisions the team can act on.

Visual / Brand

Graphic Designer

Graphic Designers create visual content — from marketing and brand materials to social and print — with a strong foundation in typography, layout, and composition.

Visual Designer

Visual Designers create the visual language of a brand or product — typography, color, imagery, and layout systems used across marketing and product surfaces.

Leadership

Design Manager

Design Managers lead a team of designers — setting direction, developing people, hiring, and connecting the team's work to the broader business.