Grows with AI

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.

AI Resistance Index 17 of 99

Among the careers AI is changing fastest: more resilient than 17% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is very high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it very high), and US jobs are projected to change by +6.0% by 2035, faster than average. The work leans on creative vision.

AI can help with many of the tasks, and demand is still growing. Being fluent with AI is the edge here.

Median pay (2025): $104,000
Job growth to 2035: +6.0%
Openings a year: 8,300
People doing it (2025): 133,000
Usual route in: Bachelor's degree

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Where people already use AI for this work

Design computer or information systems or applications
Communicate with others about specifications or project details
Document technical designs, procedures, or activities

From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).

Work AI rarely helps with

Direct scientific or technical activities
Coordinate regulatory compliance activities
Supervise personnel activities

What the work looks like

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.

From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.

What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects

Fewer of these jobs, as improvements in design tools, including improvements in design capabilities of generative artificial intelligence (AI), enhance productivity of these workers.

Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook

Software developersGrows with AI, Index 18, +10.2%
Computer and information research scientistsGrows with AI, Index 41, +21.8%
Operations research analystsGrows with AI, Index 23, +11.9%
StatisticiansGrows with AI, Index 20, +11.0%

Also known as: Web Architect, Web Design Specialist, Web Designer, Webmaster, Design Director, Designer, Game Designer, World Designer.

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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.