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Advice to a young person wishing to get into web design
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PowerBI is exploding and not many people have the skills. Big companies will pay top dollar for people that can make company reports look pretty. Watch two guys in a cube Get some certs, pop your designs on the Gallery , publicise via linked in and wait for the agents to declare their undying love.
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Dat...StoriesGallery
Its not horrendously technical to create a decent report. Infrastructure can support the technical stuff in large organisations. I have trained accountants to do it. (no offense warty!)
https://solutionsreview.com/business...ls-on-youtube/
As you can see from the gallery anyone with Graphic design skills will be in the top 10!
There is a reason why I didn't take O level art, so I do the backend stuff.
Good luck to her.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Last time I worked in a Marketing/PR company they had 3 on site Graphic designers, of varying grades, for both web and app design.Comment
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Ask you niece to learn
Photoshop
PHP and MySQL > Once she gets the hang of it and enjoys it , move to ASP and Oracle SQL.Comment
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Originally posted by Destiny2 View PostAsk you niece to learn
Photoshop
PHP and MySQL > Once she gets the hang of it and enjoys it , move to ASP and Oracle SQL.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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As others have said above, if she's come from graphic design, the natural route for her is not web development, but web design. This is often covered under the UXD (User Experience Design) or HDC (Human Centreed Design) umbrella, but covers a wide range of skills - visual design (possibly closest to what she has done), interaction design, interface/UI design, information architecture, prototyping, copywriting, customer research etc etc
It's a wide ranging subject and where she can (or needs to) focus depends on what skills she has, what skills she can adapt herself to, and where her interests lie.
An internship/apprenticeship/junior role at a design agency (typically a digital design agency) would be a good place to start. Does she have a portfolio of work?Last edited by Paralytic; 26 January 2022, 13:59.Comment
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