Most people who say they want to design games are thinking of a different job. Usually it’s the concept artist’s, or the programmer’s. The game…
Plenty of people who can draw well never earn a cent from it, and plenty of working illustrators would tell you their drawing isn’t the…
The job title gets used loosely. Some companies want someone who makes mockups in Figma and hands them off. Others expect the same person to…
Most people who want to become UI designers already spend all day using interfaces and have opinions about them. That helps, but it isn’t the…
Almost everyone who ends up running creative at an agency did something else there first. Usually that’s copywriting or art direction, and usually for a…
Most people who want to become a graphic designer start by downloading Photoshop. That’s understandable, but it’s the wrong end of the job. What you’re…
Look at ten UX designer job postings and you’ll find about six different jobs. Some want a researcher who runs interviews all week. Others want…
Most people weighing these two jobs already know they want to work on digital products. What’s harder to figure out is whether they’d rather watch…
Job boards use “UI designer” and “UX designer” almost interchangeably, and that becomes a real problem when a team hires one expecting the other. UI…
The U.S. government already treats these as two different jobs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics files Graphic Designers under code 27-1024 and Web and Digital…
Job boards use these two titles as if they mean the same thing, and they don’t. A UI designer decides how an interface should look…
Most small business owners I talk to use “web designer” and “web developer” as if they were the same job. They aren’t. One person plans…
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn’t split these two jobs apart. As of May 2024 it counted 128,900 people under a single combined classification,…
On a small project, one person often does both jobs and nobody bothers to name them. On anything bigger, the work splits. A web designer…
Job boards use “graphic designer” and “graphic artist” almost interchangeably, which is where most of the confusion starts. The software they use overlaps a lot,…
Until 2018, the federal government had no job category for the people who design apps and websites. The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 report on the…
Most people searching this are about to hire someone or pick a career track, and the job titles don’t help much. Small businesses and marketing…
Look at what each one hands over at the end of a job and the difference gets obvious. A graphic designer delivers an arrangement of…
Ask most clients what separates a graphic designer from a web designer and you’ll get a shrug. Fair enough. On a job board, though, the…
People mix these two jobs up all the time, mostly because they open a lot of the same software. The split that matters is who…
Plenty of job boards treat these two titles as if they mean the same thing. They don’t, and most of the difference comes down to…
A lot of people treat these as the same job, mostly because both use Adobe software and both get filed under “creative.” Past that, they…
Graphic Designer vs Art Director: What Is the Core Difference? Both jobs involve Photoshop, so people mix them up all the time. The real split…
Nobody gets hired as an art director straight out of school. The title usually goes to a designer who has already spent years doing the…
The never-ending debate of art director vs creative director. Ever stumbled upon a vibrant ad and thought, “Who’s the genius behind this?” Well, that might…
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