Also called: IxD Designer, Motion UI Designer
Designs how digital products respond to touches, swipes, and clicks, including animations and transitions.
They design how a menu slides open or how an app celebrates when you hit a goal. They prototype interactions in tools like ProtoPie and work with engineers to get timing right.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in interaction design or HCI.
Ways in: 4-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction.
Growing faster than average (about 7% over 10 years). Follows digital designer projections.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI helps generate prototypes and motion; how a product feels when touched, swiped and tapped still needs human taste and testing.
Classes: AP Computer Science Principles, Digital art or animation, Physics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-1255.
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