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Skills that raise your pay

• User experience and product design

  Research, wireframes, prototyping, design systems. The best paid branch of the field.

• Motion design

  Animation for social, advertising and interfaces. Still in short supply.

• Front-end code

  HTML and CSS plus some JavaScript. Designers who can build what they draw are rare and valuable.

• Brand strategy

  Deciding what should be made, not only making it. The route to creative director.

• Illustration

  A distinctive drawing style is the one thing that cannot be swapped for a template.