Where a user interface designer can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a user interface designer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
User interface designers are in charge of designing user interfaces for applications and systems. They perform layout, graphics and dialogues design activities as well as adaptation activities.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 66%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 2difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 95required or supplementary
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- digital games designer 60% covered · difficulty 55.7
- user interface developer 59% covered · difficulty 55.7
- software architect 53% covered · difficulty 59.7
- 3D modeller 51% covered · difficulty 60.1
- digital media designer 50% covered · difficulty 63.9
- computer science lecturer 48% covered · difficulty 69.4
- software analyst 47% covered · difficulty 66.1
- knowledge engineer 47% covered · difficulty 65.6
- ICT system architect 46% covered · difficulty 66.8
- embedded system designer 45% covered · difficulty 65.6
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How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a user interface designer already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.