You hit the nail on the head! I totally agree. Competitions could help both employers and job seekers tremendously. I like the Idea of using a 3rd Party. I would even take it a step further: What if they could make these competitions like a "Tournament" style event, complete with sponsors and public rankings? There are lots of fairs and competitions for all sorts of other crafts and skills, (Cooking, Racing, BMX, Rodeo, Music, and even Painting Competitions!) I don't think people would mind working for "free" in a competition if their skill was publicly acknowledged and awarded in a similar way.
Didn't think of this! I thought them to be too much of a hassle but you made sound points. Makes sense. However I have a question, how do you tackle the bit where the company is immature enough to be wooed by UI only? Which further leads to my overarching concern that for whatever reason, UI Designers get an advantage in these situation, even if a third party is chosen. What to do with this over glorification of "The future is visual"?
I mentioned in the article that the competition would have rules whereby the fidelity level would be a limited. So no matter how fancy your UI chops were, you'd be required to only design with black lines, and some red/yellow/green/blue color accents for signifiers, and grey to represent images/media. This would even the playing field.
And that won't even be necessary within 2 years because GAI will enable anyone to skin their UI however they want.
You hit the nail on the head! I totally agree. Competitions could help both employers and job seekers tremendously. I like the Idea of using a 3rd Party. I would even take it a step further: What if they could make these competitions like a "Tournament" style event, complete with sponsors and public rankings? There are lots of fairs and competitions for all sorts of other crafts and skills, (Cooking, Racing, BMX, Rodeo, Music, and even Painting Competitions!) I don't think people would mind working for "free" in a competition if their skill was publicly acknowledged and awarded in a similar way.
Didn't think of this! I thought them to be too much of a hassle but you made sound points. Makes sense. However I have a question, how do you tackle the bit where the company is immature enough to be wooed by UI only? Which further leads to my overarching concern that for whatever reason, UI Designers get an advantage in these situation, even if a third party is chosen. What to do with this over glorification of "The future is visual"?
I mentioned in the article that the competition would have rules whereby the fidelity level would be a limited. So no matter how fancy your UI chops were, you'd be required to only design with black lines, and some red/yellow/green/blue color accents for signifiers, and grey to represent images/media. This would even the playing field.
And that won't even be necessary within 2 years because GAI will enable anyone to skin their UI however they want.