“prototyping”
Appeared in 40% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (34 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 50% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“prototyping” prevalence in designer JDs, by week
2026-04-13 → 2026-11-02% of each week's designer postings that mention this term · 21 collected weeks · peak 50% · 36 earlier weeks from before collection began not shown · hatched rows: no data collected, not 0%
Where the conversation happens
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| Role | Total mentions |
|---|---|
| Senior Product Designer | 1371 |
| Product Designer | 500 |
| Staff Product Designer | 396 |
| UX Designer | 248 |
| Design Lead | 225 |
| Design Engineer | 170 |
| Principal Product Designer | 145 |
| AI Product Designer | 82 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 50 |
| Growth Designer | 36 |
| Junior Product Designer | 23 |
| Product Design Manager | 21 |
| Associate Product Designer | 17 |
| Head of Design | 11 |
| Content Designer | 8 |
| Design Director | 6 |
| Brand Designer | 4 |
| UX Researcher | 4 |
| UX Writer | 1 |
Roles where “prototyping” appears most
Ranked by share of the role's active listings that include this term. Roles with fewer than 20 active listings are left out.
- Associate Product Designer60% · 21 of 35 listings · 29 mentions
- Design Lead56% · 143 of 256 listings · 229 mentions
- Junior Product Designer53% · 24 of 45 listings · 31 mentions
- UX Designer53% · 189 of 356 listings · 263 mentions
- Senior Product Designer53% · 879 of 1,657 listings · 1,418 mentions
- Product Designer48% · 341 of 704 listings · 529 mentions
- Principal Product Designer47% · 90 of 192 listings · 151 mentions
- Staff Product Designer43% · 295 of 687 listings · 436 mentions
- AI Product Designer41% · 51 of 123 listings · 83 mentions
- Growth Designer41% · 33 of 80 listings · 44 mentions
About this tracker
Every active designer listing in our corpus is tokenized: HTML stripped, stopwords (common English words + job-posting boilerplate) removed, pure numbers dropped. The remaining tokens are bucketed into Monday-anchored weeks based on when each listing was first seen. Counts are weekly totals across every listing for that week. A week only counts as collected if our LinkedIn scrape (about 80% of volume) ran that week; weeks when it didn't are shown hatched as gaps, never as zeros.