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Design is hot. I think good designers are  going to be in demand.
Now, a lot of the people who do UX design – they're designing websites;
they're designing simple things. And – yeah – they're going to be in demand,
but that's where almost everybody is  going because if you don't get much,
if you don't get a deep training, that's all you're good at.
So, that's not going to be the best place to get a new job,
or at least a well-paying job. To get a  well-paying job, you have to have superior skills

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and you have to go to a better design school or
– it doesn't have to be a university, by the way; there's a lot of non-degree programs that are quite good.
The IxDF – Interaction Design Foundation –
has some really excellent courses  and excellent materials
– one of the best locations I know of to get really good material.
I've been with this foundation and helping the foundation since it was started in the early days.
So, I really am a big believer in it. But it's not enough,

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because reading is not the way you  become an expert; you become an expert by *doing*.
But I think at the higher levels of design, we're going to need more and more of them.
And as I answered earlier, because of the new tools that are starting to develop,
it's called generative design tools – generative artificial intelligence,
designers can use those to be even better.
Not yet, but they're getting there.

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Actually, Autodesk has tools in generative AI, generative design
that already are very effective and that can make you into a better designer.