Is UX having an existential crisis?

Continual rounds of layoffs, the emergence of advanced technology, and the proliferation of designers everywhere are forcing UX to question its reason for existence

Mike Kuechenmeister
UX Collective
Published in
7 min readMar 14, 2024

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Edvard Munch style designers on a Zoom call created by Midjourney

It's been a bad, horrible, rotten year for UX. With waves of designers laid off, UX’s influence diminished, and uncertainty about…

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Director of User Experience Design at Supergreen Digital, previously at Northwestern Mutual, ACS Technologies, Optum, United Healthcare and The Farmbell.