Web and Digital Interface Designers

What Does a Web and Digital Interface Designers Do?

Design digital user interfaces or websites. Develop and test layouts, interfaces, functionality, and navigation menus to ensure compatibility and usability across browsers or devices. May use web framework applications as well as client-side code and processes. May evaluate web design following web and accessibility standards, and may analyze web use metrics and optimize websites for marketability and search engine ranking. May design and test interfaces that facilitate the human-computer interaction and maximize the usability of digital devices, websites, and software with a focus on aesthetics and design. May create graphics used in websites and manage website content and links.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• 1Collaborate with management or users to develop e-commerce strategies and to integrate these strategies with Web sites.
• 2Collaborate with web development professionals, such as front-end or back-end developers, to complete the full scope of Web development projects.
• 3Communicate with network personnel or Web site hosting agencies to address hardware or software issues affecting Web sites.
• 4Conduct user research to determine design requirements and analyze user feedback to improve design quality.
• 5Confer with management or development teams to prioritize needs, resolve conflicts, develop content criteria, or choose solutions.
• 6Create searchable indices for Web page content.
• 7Create Web models or prototypes that include physical, interface, logical, or data models.
• 8Design, build, or maintain Web sites, using authoring or scripting languages, content creation tools, management tools, and digital media.

Required Skills

• 3M Post-it App
• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe ActionScript
• Adobe After Effects
• Adobe Creative Cloud software
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Adobe Flex
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Photoshop

Web and Digital Interface Designers Salary