Designers are currently the most unhappy and anxious group in the tech workforce.

2:34the biggest survey of its kind where we basically survey people in tech about how they're feeling about their careers, their work, their roles, especially with the rise of AI this last year. And kind of surprisingly, designers and user researchers are just the most unhappy on every dimension, like every actual dimension. They're the most overwhelmed, the most anxious, the most the least optimistic, the most worried, uh the

3:03most tired, also the least likely to recommend their role to people entering the workforce. I'm curious if you're seeing this yourself in the design community, and if you are, what do you think is going on? >> Uh, first of all, it's an incredible survey, and it's such great, I think, information to have as an industry. Um, and I think it's something we need to unpack, you know, and I see I I see a

3:28mix uh for sure. I think like I can speak most to design. Um, and I mean I talk to a lot of designers that are very optimistic and very excited. Um, and so I see in my world I see luckily I I'm or I I I see a lot of that. But I can totally understand why people might be feeling very uncertain, right? Because there's so much discussion about, well,