Vocational Index

Career

Web and digital interface designers

Design what people see and touch on a screen.

$104,000
Median pay
+6.0%
Job growth, 2025–35
8,300
Openings a year
Bachelor's degree
Typical education
4 years
Typical time after high school

Here's what you actually need to know.

The work

What people in this job do

  • Identify problems uncovered by testing or customer feedback, and correct problems or refer problems to appropriate personnel for correction.
  • Design, build, or maintain Web sites, using authoring or scripting languages, content creation tools, management tools, and digital media.
  • Write supporting code for Web applications or Web sites.
  • Perform Web site tests according to planned schedules, or after any Web site or product revision.
  • Collaborate with web development professionals, such as front-end or back-end developers, to complete the full scope of Web development projects.

The outlook

How the forecast changed this year

2024–34 edition+7.0%2025–35 edition+6.0%
Projected 10-year growth in last year's and this year's BLS projections. 9,100 → 8,300 openings a year.

AI
BLS now cites artificial intelligence in this occupation's outlook: “share decreases as improvements in design tools, including improvements in design capabilities of generative artificial intelligence (AI), enhance productivity of these workers.”

The deeper question

What kind of person does this path ask you to become?

What this work centers on

Ideas & analysis
4.9
Creation & expression
4.5
Information & systems
4.4
Persuasion & leadership
3.1
Objects & tools
2.6
People & care
2.2

O*NET interest profile, scored 1–7.

The work

Do you want most of your days spent on ideas & analysis, then creation & expression?

Responsibility

Are you willing to be the one responsible for this?

“Identify problems uncovered by testing or customer feedback, and correct problems or refer problems to appropriate personnel for correction.”

Development

What would you need to build over the next 5–10 years?

Reading Comprehension, Judgment and Decision Making, Critical Thinking, Complex Problem Solving.

Trade-offs

What does it ask of you in exchange?

4 years of education after high school (bachelor's degree), for a median of $104,000 a year and 8,300 openings nationally each year.

Paths in

Degrees that lead here

Paths across

Careers that use similar skills

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Sources

  1. BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
  2. BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34 (archived), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
  3. O*NET 31.0 Database (August 2026), National Center for O*NET Development / U.S. Department of Labor. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
  4. CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 Crosswalk, NCES and BLS. Retrieved 2026-10-01.