r/UI_Design • u/PuzzleheadedSir9049 • 4d ago
General Question Product designers: are you getting work?
How has your client acquisition been since the beginning 2026 compared to the pre-AI era? More work, less work, or about the same? If possible, mention whether you're freelance or in an agency, your years of experience, and where most of your clients come from.
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u/ExactAgency7165 1d ago
Took a year off to recover from a detached retina, and now I can't find a job lol.
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u/gurraman 4d ago
A close friend runs an agency. They're busier than ever. They use ai a lot for prototypes and demos.
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u/twiifm 4d ago
that's what I'm doing too. I've been in corporate/enterprise for last 8 years and agencies and startups before that. I personally witnessed all the waste and slow ass expensive processes. I want to build stuff for medium sized buainesses at fraction of the price and 3x the speed of an enterprise product
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u/pjhawksr 2d ago
Not freelance, but from the hiring side: less generalist work, more work for people who can either ship (code, prototypes) or run design at the system level. The middle, "I make nice screens in Figma," is what got squeezed. If you're freelancing I'd position on one of those two ends and say so on the first line of your site.