“user”

Appeared in 73% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (63 of 86 postings).

First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 73% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27

“user” 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 73% · 44 earlier weeks from before collection began not shown · hatched rows: no data collected, not 0%

2026-04-13

61%456/743

2026-04-20

36%22/61

2026-04-27

60%91/152

2026-05-04

48%62/129

2026-05-11

49%54/110

2026-05-18

53%19/36

2026-05-25

53%63/120

2026-06-01

58%113/196

2026-06-08

60%99/166

2026-06-15

65%153/234

2026-06-22

33%7/21

2026-06-29

71%226/318

2026-07-06

57%160/283

2026-07-13

63%220/348

2026-07-20

62%73/117

2026-07-27

no data collected · 9 weeks, Jul 27 – Sep 27

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2026-09-28

64%198/310

2026-10-05

71%259/365

2026-10-12

73%400/547

2026-10-19

72%425/590

2026-10-26

67%395/589

2026-11-02

73%63/86

Where the conversation happens

Roles mentioning “user” by week. Stack ordered inside-out; thicker bands = higher mention counts. Hatched: no data collected, so the river breaks instead of dropping to zero.

Senior Product DesignerProduct DesignerUX DesignerStaff Product DesignerDesign LeadUX ResearcherPrincipal Product DesignerAI Product DesignerOther roles

View as table

Role	Total mentions
Senior Product Designer	5988
Product Designer	2264
UX Designer	1946
Staff Product Designer	1598
Design Lead	725
UX Researcher	576
Principal Product Designer	436
AI Product Designer	391
Design Engineer	312
Content Designer	259
UX Writer	186
Growth Designer	126
Junior Product Designer	109
Design Systems Engineer	100
Associate Product Designer	73
Product Design Manager	51
Head of Design	28
Design Director	13
Brand Designer	6
Design Generalist	2

Roles where “user” 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 Researcher98% · 203 of 208 listings · 903 mentions
UX Designer91% · 324 of 356 listings · 2,054 mentions
UX Writer88% · 57 of 65 listings · 193 mentions
Associate Product Designer83% · 29 of 35 listings · 106 mentions
Junior Product Designer82% · 37 of 45 listings · 170 mentions
Senior Product Designer82% · 1,355 of 1,657 listings · 6,213 mentions
AI Product Designer80% · 99 of 123 listings · 395 mentions
Product Designer79% · 559 of 704 listings · 2,376 mentions
Staff Product Designer78% · 534 of 687 listings · 1,744 mentions
Content Designer77% · 82 of 107 listings · 329 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.