Reply to: Advice to a young person wishing to get into web design

[Paralytic]

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?

[vetran]

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.

ASP & Oracle that is just sick!

[Destiny2]

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.

[NigelJK]

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.

[cannon999]

That's a strange question. Web design has very little to do with programming.

[vetran]

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.

[_V_]

Or join only fans

[darmstadt]

So she knows a bit of art and something about computers and wants to make money, well Web 3.0 is her answer. Just get her to make NFTs and stick them up on https://opensea.io/

[SueEllen]

I'm sure she can find a niche in UX design with her skills without being a coder though, of course, she'd need to get a good grounding in how modern web interfaces work.
Something the designers who put together the Figma mock ups at my current client clearly know very little about!

Agreed

I've worked with companies who have UX designers. It's interesting to see how people use websites and web applications.

[WTFH]

Frontpage. Was a sideline for me in the 90s.
if it was good enough for me, then it’s good enough for your “niece”

[Roll Out The Farrell]

I'm sure she can find a niche in UX design with her skills without being a coder though, of course, she'd need to get a good grounding in how modern web interfaces work.
Something the designers who put together the Figma mock ups at my current client clearly know very little about!

[BigDataPro]

Albeit Graphic design is not necessarily Front-end development, the journey in Front-end dev is rather long (e.g. CSS, JS, React / Angular Framworks etc). You could recommend learning SQL, PowerBI/Tableau and move into Data Analysis.

[northernladuk]

Apprenticeship is the way to go, degree if at all possible. Learn on the job with the ability to move around and pick the one she wants. If it's a big enough company with a structured plan to work in different areas she may actually end in an area she didn't think she'd like or even existed. My niece started an IT apprenticeship with a large company and has gravitated towards UX and rather than the tech/PM service route which she'd never considered at the start.

[Lance]

focus on the graphic design side, as that's what she has experience in. Learning to code is going to take many years if she doen;t have any background at all.
But if she were to apply for graphic design jobs as web hosting/designing companies that would be the best start. That way she can determine what code to learn and potentially have someone help her with pointers.

[Paddy]

Just my penny's worth. Say ten or more years ago some clients may be happy with a good looking website, I don't see that today. Clients require functionally on top of an attractive design. I think she needs to work at it especially of the application development side.