Why companies are letting UX designers go and why I predict they’ll be back soon

At first glance, the current wave of UX designer layoffs seems counterintuitive. Across industries, organisations are downsizing UX roles while retaining graphic designers and UI designers with lesser UX skills. To those of us in the field, this shift can feel both alarming and shortsighted. But is it really? I wrote an article on Medium where I explain my reasoning behind why I believe many of these UX design roles will be back in the future.

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Martin Tutko is a product designer by trade and a part-time philosopher by hobby. Thinking, researching and doing design since 1998. And as of 2023 also sharing and writing about some of my experiences as a product designer 🧑🏻‍💻🌟