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UI/UX as a Career in 2025: Boom, Bust, or Just Plain Confusing?
April 8, 2026 · 1 min read
A realistic assessment of the UX market in the post-AI age. Gaining hard developer leverage by building plugins and coding token systems.
Today, standard Figma key-draggers are struggling. Developers who write custom Figma plugins, systems tokens, and critical code metrics are in massive demand. Developer leverage is the career master differentiator.
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Product designer with an engineering brain, a startup bias, and a habit of turning messy product problems into cleaner user flows, sharper interfaces, and measurable business outcomes.
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