Digital media designer to web designer
A digital media designer already meets 52% of what the web designer role asks for. The move turns on 5 required skills not yet in the profile.
45.3/ 100
1 How much of what a web designer is expected to do is already part of a digital media designer’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the web designer role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A web designer role treats 5 of its required skills as things a digital media designer already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- JavaScript
- WebCMS
- create website wireframe
- use markup languages
- web programming
What stands in the way is 5 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 12 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A web designer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a digital media designer background worth leading with.
- already held WebCMS information and communication technologies (icts)
- already held create website wireframe working with computers
- already held CSS information and communication technologies (icts)
- already held JSSS information and communication technologies (icts)
- already held style sheet languages information and communication technologies (icts)
- already held manage online content working with computers
All 12 carried skills, including the 5 the web designer role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 10 missing skills fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn compose description for web elements required
- still to learn collaborate with designers required
- still to learn establish customer rapport required
- optional, not held design web-based courses optional
- still to learn JavaScript Framework required
- optional, not held IBM WebSphere optional
- optional, not held Joomla optional
- still to learn implement front-end website design required
- optional, not held manage website optional
- optional, not held enhance website visibility optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a web designer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 compose description for web elements practise this
- 02 JavaScript Framework study this
- 03 collaborate with designers practise this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 12 skills that carry over
- already held JavaScript knowledge
- already held WebCMS knowledge
- already held create website wireframe skill
- already held use markup languages skill
- already held web programming knowledge
- already held Adobe Photoshop knowledge
- already held CSS knowledge
- already held GIMP (graphics editor software) knowledge
- already held JSSS knowledge
- already held graphics editor software knowledge
- already held manage online content skill
- already held style sheet languages knowledge
5 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held IBM WebSphere optional
- optional, not held Joomla optional
- optional, not held design web-based courses optional
- optional, not held enhance website visibility optional
- optional, not held manage website optional
91 held skills the web designer role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role 3D printing process knowledge
- not needed by the target role ABAP knowledge
- not needed by the target role AJAX knowledge
- not needed by the target role APL knowledge
- not needed by the target role ASP.NET knowledge
- not needed by the target role Adobe Illustrator knowledge
- not needed by the target role Ansible knowledge
- not needed by the target role Apache Maven knowledge
- not needed by the target role Assembly (computer programming) knowledge
- not needed by the target role C# knowledge
- not needed by the target role C++ knowledge
- not needed by the target role COBOL knowledge
- not needed by the target role Capture One knowledge
- not needed by the target role CoffeeScript knowledge
- not needed by the target role Common Lisp knowledge
- not needed by the target role Erlang knowledge
- not needed by the target role Groovy knowledge
- not needed by the target role Haskell knowledge
- not needed by the target role ICT software specifications knowledge
- not needed by the target role Java (computer programming) knowledge
- not needed by the target role Jenkins (tools for software configuration management) knowledge
- not needed by the target role LESS knowledge
- not needed by the target role Lisp knowledge
- not needed by the target role MATLAB knowledge
- not needed by the target role ML (computer programming) knowledge
- not needed by the target role Microsoft Visio knowledge
- not needed by the target role Microsoft Visual C++ knowledge
- not needed by the target role Objective-C knowledge
- not needed by the target role OpenEdge Advanced Business Language knowledge
- not needed by the target role PHP knowledge
- not needed by the target role Pascal (computer programming) knowledge
- not needed by the target role Perl knowledge
- not needed by the target role Prolog (computer programming) knowledge
- not needed by the target role Puppet (tools for software configuration management) knowledge
- not needed by the target role Python (computer programming) knowledge
- not needed by the target role R knowledge
- not needed by the target role Ruby (computer programming) knowledge
- not needed by the target role SAP R3 knowledge
- not needed by the target role SAS language knowledge
- not needed by the target role STAF knowledge
51 further entries not listed here
3 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- still to learn JavaScript Framework required
- optional, not held IBM WebSphere optional
- optional, not held Joomla optional
Other moves recorded from digital media designer
Common questions about this move
Can a digital media designer become a web designer?
Yes, and it is a moderate move. A digital media designer already covers 52% of what a web designer is expected to do: 12 skills carry over, 5 of which the web designer role treats as required.
What skills does a digital media designer need to become a web designer?
5 required skills are missing, plus 5 optional ones. They fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by communication, collaboration and creativity. The single most important is compose description for web elements.
How hard is the move from digital media designer to web designer?
Its learning distance is 45.3 out of 100, which is the moderate band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.