2014 Looking Promising for The Professional Designer, Here’s Why (Infographic)
If you're the kind of person who likes to stay connected to everything that happens in the web design community, you'll enjoy this bit of information we recently came across. This article unveils a thorough analysis of the web design industry that was performed at the end of 2013. The research was conducted by who partnered with Visual.ly to highlight the overall status of the web design industry Webydo, is a professional website design platform that enables designers to create and manage multiple website for the clients. This highly informative infographic was also recently featured on SlideShare's homepage and has been gaining momentum amongst the professional designer community for their findings.
The market analysis dug into data concerning the total number of websites that currently inhabit the web, and focused on the forces responsible for breathing life into them. As such, we learned that in the U.S. alone, the web design industry is worth a colossal figure, namely well over $20 billion. In addition, the total amount of existing sites rises to 785 million, a cumulus to which 16 million new installments are added each and every month on an average basis. And yet, 45% of businesses still lack an online representation.
The infographic further reveals that both professionals and amateurs play a major part in building sites, but that one category clearly overpowers the other. Whereas 3% are of amateur origin, 74% are crafted by designers and developers who work with sophisticated editing platforms and HTML coding. The enormous breach may come as a surprise, especially since the web is starting to be flooded with so many DIY website builders, which also annihilate the issue of coding for unknowledgeable users.
Webydo then proceeds to shed some light on the three major faults that plague the industry. The first big problem is identified in the team dynamics between a designer and a developer, who seldom find common ground: while the former creates aesthetic models for future websites, the latter specializes in generating code that would make designs applicable to the targeted content management system. Secondly, the two experts are being allotted an uneven share of the budget: a designer gets 30%, while a developer receives 70%. The third and final industry drawback concerns amateurs, who for the most part cannot get past publishing websites on domain.
Another interesting subject covered by this research is designers' take on things. From their perspective, speaking a foreign language with developers, coding in general, and being faced with crude amateur design features are the worst parts of the job. They would be much happier working independently to unleash their creative potential in full, and not have to resort to writing code.
This reality prompts a new category of B2B web design that ought to please 38M designers. Designers are supported by code-exempting services like Webydo and Adobe Muse, which offer professional features to build professional websites with. As Webydo is leading the way in this third sector of how designers design a website, it is becoming clearer every day that this type of professional web design platform is meeting the needs of designers searching for creative freedom. 2014 is the year that professional designers are stepping away from the traditional work flow with a developer, and taking the driver's seat of their projects. The advancement of platforms, like Webydo are opening the door to make website designing, management and publish even easier for these professional designers than ever before.
See what types of CMS hold the largest share of the present-day market, by consulting the infographic below. Feel free to click on it for the original Webydo version:
If your part of the percentage using Joomla or DotNetNuke your an amateur. Nice graphic though.
Nice post! Love the visuals.
I don’t agree with a specific point. I think (see everyday) that Designers are afraid of professional software and they are happy with amateurs tools. Professional software generally requires scripting abilities, amateurs tools instead have preconfigured functionalities which makes the designer very comfy.
That’s the reason of Bootstrap, jQuery and similar tools success.
If instead you’re referring to Professional Designers, well they are not afraid of JavaScript, databases and ajax calls.
Real web developers have their own Cms. I will never use an open-source like WordPress
@Chistian
Well, that’s rather self-serving. You could easily switch your comment around to, “I’m a real web developer because I’ve built my own CMS. If you haven’t built one like me then you’re not a real developer.”
That’d be more honest, but sounds a whole lot worse, now, doesn’t it? ;-)
Yep. I’m fixing an Adobe Muse site tomorrow. Like FrontPage all over again.
@Josh Chunick
My thoughts exactly.
It’s too bad that this article didn’t include stats about website content. I wonder what percentage of the sites were written by professional copywriters? What percentage of the websites that failed were written by the company owner’s wife who was an English major (but doesn’t understand marketing copy)? I wonder how many site designers are given content versus hiring copywriters to create targeted copy? It’s great that some sites look nice, but I wish they’d hired professionals like me to set the right tone and unique content that engages viewers.
Actually, Designers and Clients are two different things that never adds up together :)