Where a user interface developer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a user interface developer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
User interface developers implement, code, document and maintain the interface of a software system by using front-end development technologies.
Also known as user interface engineer, user interface developers, UI programmer, front end developer, UI developer, UI developers.
Professionals 98 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: embedded systems software developer, 80%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
- embedded systems software developer 80% covered · difficulty 30.6
- mobile application developer 77% covered · difficulty 35.5
- ICT application developer 76% covered · difficulty 35.8
- industrial mobile devices software developer 73% covered · difficulty 39.4
- digital games developer 71% covered · difficulty 40.6
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A user interface developer needs 17 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- software UI design patterns information and communication technologies (icts)
- use methodologies for user-centered design communication, collaboration and creativity
- style sheet languages information and communication technologies (icts)
- use software design patterns communication, collaboration and creativity
- integrated development environment software information and communication technologies (icts)
- use software libraries working with computers
- World Wide Web Consortium standards information and communication technologies (icts)
- graphics editor software information and communication technologies (icts)
- design user interface communication, collaboration and creativity
- draw design sketches communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a user interface developer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- web developer 77% covered · difficulty 36.5
- software developer 69% covered · difficulty 45.7
- ICT application developer 68% covered · difficulty 46.6
- mobile application developer 68% covered · difficulty 46.8
- user interface designer 59% covered · difficulty 55.7
- digital media designer 55% covered · difficulty 59.2
- webmaster 55% covered · difficulty 59.4
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How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a user interface developer’s work. 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.