The Gap
It has happened. There are no more mid-level designers. Only struggling juniors and a few seniors remain—nothing in between.
No place to learn anymore. New titles keep popping up—product designer, UX designer, design strategist. Fancy names. Empty promises. They don’t hide the problem; they highlight it. The truth? The designers who truly know their craft—those who survived decades of media evolution, from print to web, packaging to branding, identities to campaigns—are vanishing.
These are the people who spot problems before they exist. Who connects the dots nobody else sees. Those who solve issues before they explode…
The gap isn’t coming. It’s here.
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