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Product / UX designer — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Web Administrators · Computer Programmers · Computer Systems Engineers/Architects · Database Administrators · Video Game Designers
In the official classification#
Web and Digital Interface Designers
Fit with this page: closest match, not the same job
Job Zone 4: considerable preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 15-1255.00 (Web and Digital Interface Designers). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- Judgment and Decision MakingVery important
- Complex Problem SolvingImportant
- ProgrammingImportant
- Operations AnalysisImportant
- Time ManagementImportant
- CoordinationImportant
- Service OrientationImportant
- Systems EvaluationImportant
Knowledge
- Computers and ElectronicsVery important
- English LanguageVery important
- Customer and Personal ServiceVery important
- Administration and ManagementImportant
- Sales and MarketingImportant
- DesignImportant
Work activities
- Working with ComputersExtremely important
- Getting InformationExtremely important
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and EventsExtremely important
- Making Decisions and Solving ProblemsExtremely important
- Thinking CreativelyVery important
- Processing InformationVery important
Abilities
- Written ComprehensionVery important
- Problem SensitivityVery important
- Near VisionVery important
- Oral ComprehensionVery important
- Deductive ReasoningVery important
- Oral ExpressionImportant
Essential skills
- Reading ComprehensionVery important
- Critical ThinkingVery important
- Active ListeningImportant
- Active LearningImportant
- WritingImportant
Tasks O*NET proposes to add#
O*NET's analysts propose new or reworded task statements for future data collection, drawing on what surveyed workers write in, research into new technologies and professional associations. They are candidates, not yet part of the rated task list, and they say nothing about whether automation is involved. This site does not fold them into its own task judgements.
- Optimize webpages for search engine rankings.New task · 2026-08 · reported by surveyed workers · O*NET 31.0
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 5 task judgements are for: 2 backed by a verified event, 3 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.