Ask HN: Have any devs transitioned into pure design work (or maybe a combo)?

I'm curious whether any of you here have went from being a developer to a designer and how did you do it, and whether you liked your life now?

I ask because I think my drive for development work is really drying up and I remember when I had a little side project going where I made myself learn illustrator, I had more fun doing the art aspect of it rather than coding the damn thing.

Now I'm thinking of potentially taking some design courses and seeing where it'll all go.