Illustrated 2015 User experience Industry survey report

Today, the Tencent CDC joint IXDC summary of this 2015 user experience Industry survey report, this paper analyzes the six aspects of practitioner portrait, salary, job-hopping, satisfaction, enterprise team and core competence, and makes a systematic interpretation of the whole industry situation, and suggests that students who are not clear about the professional direction should study well. Find a career that suits you and make a good effort.

July 19, 2015, "International Experience Design Conference" hosted by International Experience Design Association (IXDC) in Asia's most influential experience design gala concluded successfully at Beijing National Convention Center. In the keynote speech of 17th, IXDC Vice President Hu Xiao shared the "2015 User Experience Industry survey Report", the report through the practitioner portrait, salary, job-hopping, satisfaction, enterprise team, core competitiveness of six aspects of the overall survey, the entire industry situation carried out a systematic analysis, For the user experience practitioners to understand the status quo and development of the industry provides an objective and strong reference. The industry survey report was jointly completed by IXDC and Tencent CDC, and this paper interprets the core content of the report in a chart format.

　　Who are the peers?

User experience industry practitioners are generally small, the time is short, young trend is obvious, higher education, undergraduate and above accounted for a large, professional requirements in the continuous improvement. In addition, most practitioners work in private or foreign companies, the market for the experience of the industry's strong demand.

The current user experience industry's main jobs include, management, visual design, interactive design, user research, products, and so on, the practitioners of different jobs have distinct characteristics.

　　Second, what is the salary level of peers?

More than 30% practitioners in the user experience industry pre-tax salary income in 5~15w, different types of work, salary level has a certain difference. Team and project management pay a wide range of salaries, higher than other positions.

The main factors that affect the salary level of the practitioner are the work position, the working life, the size of the company, the main factors that affect the salary increase are the size of the company and the field of the industry, the larger the enterprise scale, the higher the salary rise.

　　Who wants to change jobs?

A survey of workers job-hopping shows that more than 60% of the practitioners have had job-hopping experience, and 50% practitioners will consider changing jobs in the coming year. The main factors of job-hopping are "product project status", "Company team Status", "pay and benefits" and "training learning opportunities".

It is not difficult to find that the user experience industry is gradually increasing mobility, the choice of practitioners more and more, the professional career planning is also more diversified, this to the user Experience team, work environment, training and so on have put forward higher requirements.

　　Are the peers satisfied with their work?

2015 user experience industry practitioners job satisfaction is a certain increase than 2014, the industry confidence index slightly lower than in 2014. The main factors that affect satisfaction are "salary", "Work content", "whether have the right to speak", and the job satisfaction of different categories of practitioners is different.

　　V. What is the trend of industry development?

According to the report, 65.5% of the people surveyed are working for internet companies, 30% of whom work in large companies with more than 1000 employees. In general, only large integrated companies and specialized design companies only have user experience department, but the scale of the user Experience team expanded year in, the industry tends to Internet, user Experience Team building is also more and more attention.

　　What are the most important competencies?

Investigation and analysis found that in order to ensure the core competitiveness, the user experience industry practitioners need to have the common ability of "communication", "demand Understanding", "Team cooperation", "user Experience thinking", "logic analysis", but the different categories of user experience practitioner ability requirements of the focus of differences.

The industry survey participants mainly in the one or two-line city of large and medium-sized enterprises practitioners, questionnaires from the design, release, recycling to data analysis, Report preparation by the "Tencent Questionnaire" is responsible for the full version of the industry report through the Tencent CDC website or ixdc official website to download reading. The Tencent Questionnaire (wj.qq.com) is an online questionnaire survey platform developed by Tencent CDC based on many years ' survey experience, which is an important questionnaire tool for users, markets and products research within Tencent company.