How to Become a UI/UX Designer : Skills, Tools, Salary & Growth in 2025

UI/UX Designer or developer is a professional who can specialise in creating and design the visual interface for all applications. They can create an attractive user interface and enhance the user experience. UI/UX designer is also called as front end developer because they can work with website designing part.

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What is UI/UX Designer?What is UX Design?Roles & Responsibilities Skills & Knowledge Required Tools & Technologies Used Career Path & Growth How to Become a UI/UX Designer?Average Salary of UI/UX Designer Popular Companies Hiring UI/UX Designers

The main role or the key responsibility of a UI/UX designer is to design such a Website ,mobile apps or any software Interface so it can be user friendly or easy to use. The goal is that design should be understood by every person and also attractive.

All companies have their own UI/UX designer or developer to create the interface which can not only be User friendly, but also it focused on the Consumer strategies.

What is UI/UX Designer?

If you want to become a UI/UX designer or developer, you need to have experience with Software like Figma and many more. UI/UX designers must adhere to many responsibilities like gathering the requirements, designing the interface and finding out the graphic elements.

If you have your portfolio and you specialise in UI/UX design or have done many projects so many companies will hire you. Designers should think about the color scheme and design such an interface so anyone can use it.

What is UX Design?

UX stands for User Experience. In UX design, we can design the user experience for The product. In this, we design the product in such a way that we follow the user’s point of view, then their behaviour ,ideas. Keep this thing in front and mind when we design any interface or product.

But in UI, we have some other responsibilities like understanding the colors, finalizing text, wireframe and prototype ,design iterations and then finalize the design. After confirming the design, then we can design our system or the product.

Roles & Responsibilities

User Research	In this we study the user behavior through interviews or surveys and understand the users’ needs.
Wireframing & Prototyping	Wireframing and Prototyping is nothing, but he can lay out the other product using the tools like a figma.
Visual Design	in this we design the attractive interface with icons, choose colors and graphics.
UX Design	In UX is and we can check that User can easily use the product or Improve their Satisfaction.
Collaborations	Collaboration is nothing, but to work with other employees in the company is like a product manager, developer on the client.
Usability Testing	Usability testing is nothing but we can test the product in real time and find out some error issues with the product.

Skills & Knowledge Required

Category	Tools / Skills
Design Tools	Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, InVision, Balsamiq
Prototyping	Figma, Adobe XD, Marvel, Axure
Graphic Design	Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator
UI Design	Color theory, typography, layout design
UX Design	Wireframing, user flow, persona creation, journey mapping
Research	A/B testing, heatmaps, surveys
Soft Skills	Creativity, communication, empathy, attention to detail

Tools & Technologies Used

UI/UX Tools: Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, Zeplin
Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator
Prototyping: In Vision, Axure RP
Collaboration: Jira, Trello, Slack, Notion
User Testing: Maze, Hotjar, Lookback

Career Path & Growth

There are multiple Rules related to the UI/UX designer. Entry level or is.You a UX intern and UI designer or UX designer. Some mid level or is UI/UX designer or senior UI/UX designer. Also there are some senior level job post Like lead designer or design director, head of design and Chief Design Officer (CDO)