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Web and Digital Interface Designers in West Virginia

Thinking about a career as a Web and Digital Interface Designers in West Virginia? Here’s what you need to know. 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. Excludes “Special Effects Artists and Animators” (27-1014) and “Graphic Designers” (27-1024).

What do Web and Digital Interface Designers Make in West Virginia?

The web and digital interface designers working in West Virginia, the median annual wage is $72,630 per year (or roughly $34.92/hour).Annual wages span from $40,700 at the 10th percentile to $195,130 at the 90th percentile.

Wage Statistic	Annual	Hourly
10th percentile	$40,700	$19.57
25th percentile	$43,490	$20.91
Median (50th)	$72,630	$34.92
75th percentile	$120,580	$57.97
90th percentile	$195,130	$93.81

The job concentration index in West Virginia compared to the national average — is 0.22, meaning fewer web and digital interface designers per worker than the national average.

National Wage Comparison

Nationally, web and digital interface designers earn a median of $88,198 per year ($42.40/hour), lower than the West Virginia median.

Employment Outlook

National employment for 450,521 web and digital interface designers nationwide. In West Virginia alone, about 110 people work in this role. That’s fewer than the typical state, which employs around 830 web and digital interface designers.

Top States for Web and Digital Interface Designers Employment

View the states that employ the most web and digital interface designers work.

State	Number Employed
California	27,210
New York	14,840
Washington	7,840
Texas	7,360
Florida	4,140
Pennsylvania	4,080
Tennessee	3,470
North Carolina	3,360
Georgia	3,070
Colorado	2,740
Virginia	2,740
Massachusetts	2,690
New Jersey	2,450
Illinois	2,140
Ohio	1,940
Michigan	1,800
Minnesota	1,510
Arizona	1,430
Indiana	1,390
Missouri	1,360

Highest-Paying States for Web and Digital Interface Designers

Where web and digital interface designers earn the most: web and digital interface designers.

State	Annual Median Salary
California	$130,240
Washington	$126,960
New York	$121,700
Rhode Island	$111,200
Massachusetts	$107,560
Hawaii	$105,560
Colorado	$103,990
Georgia	$100,530
Utah	$99,300
Vermont	$99,160

Daily Tasks

Web and Digital Interface Designers typically:

• Collaborate with management or users to develop e-commerce strategies and to integrate these strategies with Web sites.
• Collaborate with web development professionals, such as front-end or back-end developers, to complete the full scope of Web development projects.
• Communicate with network personnel or Web site hosting agencies to address hardware or software issues affecting Web sites.
• Conduct user research to determine design requirements and analyze user feedback to improve design quality.
• Confer with management or development teams to prioritize needs, resolve conflicts, develop content criteria, or choose solutions.
• Create searchable indices for Web page content.
• Create Web models or prototypes that include physical, interface, logical, or data models.
• Design, build, or maintain Web sites, using authoring or scripting languages, content creation tools, management tools, and digital media.
• Develop and document style guidelines for Web site content.
• Develop new visual design concepts and modify concepts based on stakeholder feedback.
• Develop or implement procedures for ongoing Web site revision.
• Develop system interaction or sequence diagrams.

Tools & Technology

Technologies frequently used: Hot technologies: Adobe Acrobat, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Creative Cloud software, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, AJAX, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Web Services AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Web Services AWS software, Ansible software, Apache Cassandra, Apache Hadoop In-demand technologies: Adobe Creative Cloud software, Adobe Illustrator

What Major Will Prepare You For This Career?

Related college programs include:

• Computer Science
• Computer Information Systems
• Information Science
• Computer Programming
• Computer Software Applications
• Information Technology

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Related Careers

Careers similar to web and digital interface designers include:

• Search Marketing Strategists
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Also Known As

Computer Graphic Artist, Computer Graphic Designer, Content Manager, Digital Designer, Experience Designer, Front End Developer, Front End Web Developer, Graphics Designer, HTML Developer (HyperText Markup Language Developer), Interface Designer, Internet Application Developer, Internet Architect, Internet Developer, Internet Site Designer, Internet Specialist.

References

• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics — https://www.bls.gov/oes/
• O*NET Online — https://www.onetonline.org/
• BLS Employment Projections — https://www.bls.gov/emp/
• O*NET-SOC code: 15-1255.00