I took a few elective Human Computer Interaction classes in undergrad and grad school. I have never seen a company pay more than lip service to doing actual UI design.
I generally work with graphic designers who made the switch to calling themselves UI/UX designers because the realized it paid more. They’re much better than me at understanding composition, fonts, colors, visual hierarchy etc…, but they don’t know much at all about actually designing interactive UI.
In many cases the designers are the first people to work on engineering the product and they aren’t equipped for this work at all.
I generally work with graphic designers who made the switch to calling themselves UI/UX designers because the realized it paid more. They’re much better than me at understanding composition, fonts, colors, visual hierarchy etc…, but they don’t know much at all about actually designing interactive UI.
In many cases the designers are the first people to work on engineering the product and they aren’t equipped for this work at all.