11 Halloween Costume Memes to Scare Your Design Friends
The Spirit of Halloween meme format is alive and well this year
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It’s that time of year for you to Google weird Halloween costumes that you never end up wearing.
But not this year…this year, you will go dressed as your ideal design role because we have eleven unstoppable last-minute costume ideas for designers.
Spirit of Halloween Costume Memes
Now, you have no excuse for showing up to work without a costume. A word of warning, though: wearing these to a costume party outside of work shows your friends that you might have a problem.
1. UX Designer Costume
by Jeff Humble
Making this one was too easy. How are there so many clichés in the UX world?
2. Service Designer Costume
by Jeff Humble
I made this meme for the most underappreciated role in design...the service designer. If you see someone wearing this costume, hug them immediately.
3. Strategic Designer Costume
by Jeff Humble
I made this meme, but it really made itself because Strategic Designers have so many clichés. If you're curious about the role, learn more about strategic design here.
4. Growth Designer Costume
by Jeff Humble
Growth Designers get a lot of hate because they tend to be so marketing-driven, but we need designers who aren't afraid of numbers. If you're interested in growth design, check out my guide to testing and experiments for designers.
5. UX Researcher Costume
by Jeff Humble
This is an easy one if you don’t mind lugging around piles of papers and bugging people to read them.
6. Staff Designer Costume
by Jeff Humble
Just say "no" to managing kids! Staff Designer positions are rising after the lockdown, so with this costume, you, too, can experience the joy and pain of being the team's "mature" designer.
7. UX Architect Costume
by Jeff Humble
I've always wondered how you get these magical roles like UX architect, but now you know it's the label maker. Re-live the good 'ole UX days when people let you organize the product according to the users' needs rather than the feature factory Frankensteins we have today.
8. Design Recruiter Costume
by Cara North
I don't know who made this, but I love it. I can only imagine how therapeutic it would be to wear it. I also love that the costume comes with a whole attitude you can try on Halloween night—by ghosting everybody.
9. Design Manager Costume
by Jeff Humble
This one leaves a trail of greasy fingerprints wherever they go. You've never worked for an agency if this image doesn't trigger you.
10. UX Strategist Costume
by Jeff Humble
This costume is built around the mystical notebook that (supposedly) guides the UX team, but nobody can understand it. This is probably the easiest costume, but the job is perhaps the hardest. If you want to pierce the veil of mystery, check out my course to become a UX Strategist.
11. Entry-Level Design Job Costume
by Jeff Humble
This costume takes six months to put on, and somehow, it always turns into a costume for an unpaid internship.
If your colleagues ask, tell them I said it’s totally normal, and all the designers dress up as themselves.
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