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Web and Digital Interface Designers

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.

Also called: UI Developer (User Interface Developer), UX Developer (User Experience Developer), UX Engineer (User Experience Engineer), Web Administration Coordinator (Web Admin Coordinator), Web Architect, Web Content Developer

Median pay in Greater Boston
$122,270
$58.79/hr
Jobs in Greater Boston
2,330
Massachusetts 2024–2034
+2.2%
190 openings a year
Typical U.S. entry requirement
Bachelor's degree

Greater Boston: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, May 2025. Growth and openings: Massachusetts statewide projection.

Pay range in Greater Boston

Yearly pay in Greater Boston by percentile
10th25thMedian75th90th
$72,860$86,770$122,270$159,540$178,250

10% of workers earn less than the first figure and 10% earn more than the last.

What you’d 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.
  • Develop new visual design concepts and modify concepts based on stakeholder feedback.

AI and this job

AI exposure: how much of this job’s work AI tools can do or help with, based on national research. It is not a forecast of job loss.

Higher exposure82 of 100

The index averages three national research measures, each shown as a percentile of all jobs:

  • AIOE 79
  • Language-model AIOE 72
  • GPTs-are-GPTs 95

Observed AI use today: Substantial (Anthropic Economic Index)

AI exposure for this job is higher, and AI tools are already used a good deal in it. Tools can help with layouts, site building, code, and testing. Federal projections say better design tools, including generative AI, may make these workers more productive, which could mean fewer openings. Understanding user feedback and teamwork with developers still rely on people.

Likely to change

  • Creating layouts and design drafts
  • Writing code and running routine site tests

Still relies on people

  • Making sense of customer feedback
  • Working with developers to finish projects

What federal projections say

“Productivity change - share decreases as improvements in design tools, including improvements in design capabilities of generative artificial intelligence (AI), enhance productivity of these workers.”
BLS Employment Projections 2025–35, factors affecting this job (U.S.)

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