“usability”
Appeared in 31% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (27 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 40% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“usability” 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 40% · 24 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 | 1218 |
| UX Designer | 493 |
| Product Designer | 411 |
| Staff Product Designer | 212 |
| Design Lead | 133 |
| UX Researcher | 72 |
| AI Product Designer | 69 |
| Principal Product Designer | 67 |
| Design Engineer | 66 |
| Junior Product Designer | 35 |
| Content Designer | 28 |
| Associate Product Designer | 22 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 22 |
| Growth Designer | 21 |
| UX Writer | 13 |
| Head of Design | 5 |
| Brand Designer | 3 |
| Product Design Manager | 3 |
| Design Director | 2 |
Roles where “usability” 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.
- UX Designer71% · 251 of 356 listings · 528 mentions
- Associate Product Designer66% · 23 of 35 listings · 35 mentions
- Junior Product Designer56% · 25 of 45 listings · 47 mentions
- UX Researcher45% · 94 of 208 listings · 152 mentions
- Senior Product Designer43% · 709 of 1,657 listings · 1,242 mentions
- AI Product Designer39% · 48 of 123 listings · 71 mentions
- Product Designer39% · 274 of 704 listings · 433 mentions
- Design Lead38% · 96 of 256 listings · 139 mentions
- Content Designer25% · 27 of 107 listings · 30 mentions
- Growth Designer23% · 18 of 80 listings · 21 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.