From BA to UX / UI Designer, is it worth changing? 📚

Did you ever think...

If one day we quit our "steady and good" job to start again on the line we really want to do, would it be worth it?

From the author of Requirements All Day to the designer of Screens All Night - and that's why this call change is worth it.

We were Business Analyst before.

Life was with Requirements, Process Flow, Meeting with Stakeholders, Solving System Problems and Trying to Make Business Walk as Slippery as possible.

Honestly, it's a good job.

Money is good, mature, and a line that many people see as very stable.

But deep down, we feel...

"We haven't used creativity in the way we want to."

"We haven't designed what people really touch and feel about it yet."

So that's why he decided to resign.

Then jump to start again in the UX / UI Design line.

Many people ask, "Is it a pity to leave BA?"

The answer is... not a pity.

Because the more you do UX / UI, the more you know that what used to be BA doesn't disappear, but it becomes a weapon that gives us a huge advantage.

✅ BA makes us understand Business before design.

Many times, a pretty UX / UI alone doesn't necessarily mean it works.

But people who have been through BA thinking are used to asking,

- What does business want?

- Where did User find Pain Point?

- How supported is the backyard system?

- If you design it like this, Dev can do it, right?

It makes us not designed from beauty.

But we design from "problem solving."

And this is what makes a UX / UI worth more than just a screen drawing person.

✅ Keeping Requirements is a lot easier to talk to people.

From having to meet with many parties every day.

So we understand that each team thinks differently.

When doing UX / UI, not just looking at the User angle

But we can listen to Business, listen to Developer, listen to Marketing at the same time.

Make the design work not out of the world

And forward work has slipped more than I thought.

✅ BA teaches to think systematically, which UX / UI requires more than many people think.

Many people understand that UX / UI is to make up a pretty screen.

But really, behind the scenes is putting Logic on all applications.

- Where did this button go?

- What does User have to do?

- Flow, which confuses people?

- Step. Which makes people loose?

Which BA has done all his life.

So we didn't start from scratch.

But like putting the same skills into a new field

Then why still choose UX / UI on the day of AI?

This is a very common question.

"AI is designing a screen. Is UX / UI still alive?"

Personally, it looks like... surviving, and it's even clearer what kind of person will stay.

Because AI actually helps do these things:

- Generate layout

- Generate wireframe.

- Suggest color.

- Preliminary prototype

- Help research faster.

But AI cannot represent the most important thing:

"Human understanding + business understanding + decision-making from real context."

AI can make beautiful pictures.

But AI has yet to sit down with stakeholders who have changed the 3-round requirement in a single day. 😅

AI does not understand that some features have to compromise because of business constraints, and AI does not know how detailed the user's sense of time is.

In the end, the person who will survive is not the most beautiful.

But people who use AI as a tool and add their own strategic ideas, and here the business-savvy UX / UI has a huge advantage.

The transition from BA to UX / UI for us is not to throw away the old to start a whole new one, but to take the old experience and open the door for yourself to a more desirable version.

So I'm grateful to myself for leaving that day, because sometimes "growth is not about staying in the same place long enough," but about allowing myself to start again where the heart wants to go. 🤍

# Change the line # UXUI # BusinessAnalyst # AIDesign # Resigned from work