Web design professionals
Web design professionals design, develop and maintain websites and web and mobile applications to meet a client’s specified requirements.
Task Bundle Breakdown
How AI interacts with this occupation's task bundle
Task-by-Task Breakdown
Every task scored individually — sorted highest to lowest AI exposure
designs web pages and applications including graphics, animation and functionality to maximise visual effectiveness and facilitate appropriate access
Tools like Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, and GitHub Copilot can generate visual assets, suggest layouts, and auto-complete code, but a human designer is still needed to curate, refine, and ensure brand coherence and accessibility.
presents design options to the client
AI tools like Gamma or Beautiful.ai can help generate presentation decks and mockups quickly, but persuasively pitching design rationale and reading client reactions still requires human skill.
designs web interfaces for relational database systems
AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot can generate database schema designs and suggest query structures, but understanding complex relational logic and aligning it with UX requirements still demands human expertise.
liaises with internal/external client in order to define the requirements for the website or applications
AI tools like ChatGPT can help structure questions and summarise requirements, but the nuanced negotiation, relationship-building, and iterative clarification with clients requires human communication and judgement.
ROI Calculator
Web design professionals
This is not a pay rise — it's 562.5 hours of productive capacity that AI could return to you, valued at your current rate.
The portion of your current salary tied to tasks AI can automate or augment. Not a prediction of job loss — a signal of where your role is changing fastest.
How is this calculated?▾
Task weights — each task is weighted by its O*NET frequency rating. Where frequency data is absent, equal weighting is applied.
AI time reduction — tasks scored as "AI Automates" assume 80% time saving; "AI Assists" assumes 40%; "Human-Led" assumes 5%.
Salary equivalent — annual hours saved × (salary ÷ 1,800 working hours/year).
Value at risk — salary × share of role time in AI-automate or AI-assist tasks.
Figures are indicative estimates for planning purposes, not guarantees of productivity gain or job loss risk.