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Skills that raise your pay

• UX (user experience) and product design

  Figma, user research, prototyping. The highest-paid branch of design.

• Motion design

  After Effects and animation. Short supply.

• Front-end code

  HTML and CSS (the languages web pages are built with) and some JavaScript. Designers who can build are rare and valuable.

• Brand strategy

  Moving from making things to deciding what to make.