The jobs of the future belong to data scientists and user experience designers

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GE and design may not seem to go together, but as it connects its industrial products, medical devices and home appliances to the Internet and rethinks its business for the connected age, the company is focusing on user interfaces and data.

Onstage at the Roadmap 2013 conference in San Francisco, Beth Comstock, SVP and CMO at GE, explained how the company is designing processes and interfaces that optimize the skills that machines and people each bring to a job. So a repairman might use sensor data and augmented reality to repair a complicated piece of machinery, or a hospital might use robots to track equipment and move it around, freeing nurses up to do more patient-focused jobs. As a result of this shift Comstock believes that jobs like data scientist or user interface designer will become far more important.


The jobs of the future belong to data scientists and user experience designers