Also called: User Experience Designer, Digital Interface Designer
Designs digital products so they're easy and enjoyable to use.
They create user flows, wireframes, and prototypes, and run usability tests. Many work at agencies or in-house at banks, hospitals, and retailers. Collaboration with developers is constant.
Based on BLS web and digital interface designers (15-1255), May 2024 estimates.
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 design or related field; bootcamps common.
Ways in: 4-year college, Certification, Self-taught. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction.
Growing faster than average (about 7% over 10 years). BLS projects faster-than-average growth for web developers and digital designers, 2024-34.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. AI wireframing and screen generation squeeze junior UX roles hardest; research-driven designers who own product problems last.
Classes: AP Psychology, Graphic design CTE, AP Computer Science Principles.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-1255.
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