Career Paths
Learn more about the career options that are most popular after our programs
Career Path #1
Visual Designer
Visual designers are hybrid designers who are skilled in digital product design, user interface design, design systems, brand design and any other sub-disciplines that handles creating beautiful and enjoyable graphics. Every company that produces digital products needs visual designers.
Recommended Curriculum
Typography
Color Theories
Design Layouts
Design Systems
User Interface Design
Brand Design
Designing for Accessibility
Sample Job Descriptions
- Participate in design brainstorming and work sessions.
- Create sketches, mood boards, presentations, and paper prototypes to communicate your design to the rest of the team.
- Adhere to the overall brand guidelines while continuing to evolve the design possibilities and the brand itself.
- Create visual campaigns from briefs and meetings with partners by asking questions and recognizing areas where more information is required.
Excerpts from real LinkedIn job posts
Career Outlook
$81,968
Median Salary in the US
3%
Jobs Growth Rate
43,322
Jobs Available
*Statistics from Zippia
Career Path #2
UI/UX Designer
UI/UX designers are in-demand designers with hybrid skills. These designers need to know how to design interface that is beautiful but also easy to use for digital users. UI/UX designers primarily work in-house for technology companies but a growing number of creative agencies also hire UI/UX designers.
Recommended Curriculum
Typography
Color Theories
Design Layouts
Design Systems
User Interface Design
Designing for Accessibility
Sample Job Descriptions
- Design UI mockups, site flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes
- Learn to identify opportunities to improve product experience through user interviews, focus groups, A/B, and multivariate testing.
- Work with software development teams to ensure implementation and quality of design.
- Bring new ideas to life from sketching and wireframes, through to high-fidelity designs, and asset production
- Conduct user research and market research
Excerpts from real LinkedIn job posts
Career Outlook
$90,000
Median Salary in the US
3%
Jobs Growth Rate
50,411
Jobs Available
*Statistics from Zippia
Career Path #3
Brand Designer
Brand designers are especially in demand at creative agencies and in-house creative departments where branding is an ongoing initiative. Brand designers can also freelance as there is always a demand from small businesses that are establishing their brands for the first time.
Recommended Curriculum
Typography
Color Theories
Design Layouts
Design Systems
User Interface Design
Designing for Accessibility
Brand Design
Sample Job Descriptions
- Demonstrate beautiful and functional visuals and graphic design, typography, hierarchy, for all brand applications, both digital and physical.
- Collaborate with designers, copywriters, and cross-functional teams to craft compelling stories through copy, video, animation, illustration and photography
- Design conceptual brand expressions that communicate brand intention and value
- Create visual campaigns from briefs and meetings with partners by asking questions and recognizing areas where more information is required.
- Create holistic 360 brand campaigns that support our business strategy and other business initiatives
Excerpts from real LinkedIn job posts
Career Outlook
$82,148
Median Salary in the US
N/A
Jobs Growth Rate
37,180
Jobs Available
*Statistics from Glassdoor and Indeed.
Career Path #4
Interaction Designer
Interaction designers are designers with hybrid skillsets in UI animation and interaction design. They are well-verse in digital product design as well as competent in general visual design principles. They work together with UX designers to design aspects that directly influence the efficiency and enjoyment of user’s interaction with digital products. Interaction designers play crucial roles in ensuring the immediate experience of a product is seamless and enjoyable for users.
Recommended Curriculum
Typography
Color Theories
Design Layouts
Design Systems
User Interface Design
Designing for Accessibility
Sample Job Descriptions
- Experience in crafting usable digital interfaces utilizing design tools.
- Ability to lead user-centered design teams while maintaining responsibilities as an individual contributor, ideating products from scratch and improving features.
- Hands-on experience of and passion for building UI architecture, interface, interaction flow, and prototypes, from digital to tangible proofs of concept.
- Create and visually communicate an information architecture to enable the design of intuitive navigation and clear wayfinding.
- Partner with PMs, engineers, researchers and content designers, overseeing the implementation of the user experience
Excerpts from real LinkedIn job posts
Career Outlook
$82,000
Median Salary in the US
13%
Jobs Growth Rate
53,172
Jobs Available
*Statistics from Zippia
Career Path #5
Product Designer
Digital product designers are hybrid designers who understand the entire life cycle of the development of digital products such as mobile applications and websites. They are well-verse in visual design, UX design, interaction design as well as the business side of product development. If you want to become a product designer, becoming skilled in multiple design disciplines as well as educating yourself with the business side of design will be crucial.
Recommended Curriculum
Typography
Color Theories
Design Layouts
Design Systems
User Interface Design
Designing for Accessibility
Sample Job Descriptions
- Rapidly produce UX concepts and vision through effective demonstrations and storytelling
- Test concepts with users, and refine based on your findings.
- Design end-to-end flows and experiences that are simple and elegant for our supported platforms
- Ship, measure, and improve your designs based on quantitative and qualitative feedback
Excerpts from real LinkedIn job posts
Career Outlook
$100,849
Median Salary in the US
3%
Jobs Growth Rate
75,507
Jobs Available
*Statistics from Zippia
Career Path #6
Art Director
Art directors used to work exclusively in advertising agencies, broadcast and film, but the relevancy of the role has expanded significantly, including to the technology sector. A quick search on job sites will generate results from top technology companies looking for art directors because they need their skillsets for creative marketing campaigns as well as focusing more in-house efforts on developing products with messaging that resonate with customers.
Recommended Curriculum
Typography
Color Theories
Design Layouts
Design Systems
User Interface Design
Designing for Accessibility
Brand Design
Art Direction
Sample Job Descriptions
- Think about big ideas that can live on social media and have the potential to go beyond (TV, billboards, etc).
- Work with the entire creative team to establish a unified brand understanding and voice for the company, helming a creative audit to elevate our innovation.
- Communicate innovative brand ideas to stakeholders in clear, concise ways to both marketing and product audiences
- Support, guide and inspire the art team to deliver overall goals and projects on time.
- Review and provide actionable feedback on Creative Team members' designs and projects
Excerpts from real LinkedIn job posts
Career Outlook
$74,511
Median Salary in the US
1%
Jobs Growth Rate
12,211
Jobs Available
*Statistics from Zippia