&gt;Work for web designers isn&#x27;t drying up overall, it&#x27;s just that the low-end – [...] – has become commoditised.<p>&gt;The higher-end work – [...] – is still around, and it&#x27;s become much more specialised<p>The specialisation means that work for &quot;web designers&quot; has declined IMO.<p>I used to do sites for local charities and SMEs. They tend now to use Wix or WordPress with a template, something along those lines.<p>Those who can afford something more bespoke have much greater expectations and web design as a field has grown. Just keeping up with the pace of change of browser tech is hard now, never mind everything else that goes in to a &quot;simple&quot; webpage - one needs a team to do it properly IMO.  So the generalists, as I once was, are really not in demand anymore.<p>The web designer has been killed off by commoditisation and specialisation and there increased expectation and possibilities that are now part of the everyday web.