Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

digital games designertouser interface designer

A digital games designer already meets 56% of what the user interface designer role asks for. The move turns on 16 required skills not yet in the profile.

From digital games designer
56%
Overlap1
To user interface designer
61 Skills carried over
16 Required, not held
59 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

56%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

59/ 100

1 Share of the user interface designer role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the digital games designer profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A user interface designer role treats 11 of its required skills as things a digital games designer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • ICT security legislation
  • application usability
  • define technical requirements
  • design graphics
  • design process
  • interactive media

What stands in the way is 16 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 61 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A user interface designer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a digital games designer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held software interaction design information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held Rapid application development information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held Spiral development information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held Waterfall development information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held incremental development information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held iterative development information and communication technologies (icts)

All 61 carried skills, including the 11 the user interface designer role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 34 missing skills fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 communication, collaboration and creativity 7 required
  • required, not held design user interface required
  • required, not held interact with users to gather requirements required
  • required, not held use methodologies for user-centered design required
  • required, not held build business relationships required
  • required, not held develop creative ideas required
  • required, not held draw design sketches required
  • required, not held translate requirements into visual design required
02 information and communication technologies (icts) 5 required, 8 supplementary
  • required, not held ICT accessibility standards required
  • required, not held graphics editor software required
  • required, not held human-computer interaction required
  • required, not held software UI design patterns required
  • required, not held World Wide Web Consortium standards required
  • optional, not held Adobe Illustrator optional
  • optional, not held Adobe Photoshop optional
  • optional, not held GIMP (graphics editor software) optional
  • optional, not held Microsoft Visio optional
  • optional, not held SketchBook Pro optional
  • optional, not held Synfig optional
  • optional, not held web based collaborative platforms optional
  • optional, not held screen reader optional
03 working with computers 2 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held create website wireframe required
  • required, not held use an application-specific interface required
  • optional, not held use query languages optional
  • optional, not held perform online data analysis optional
04 information skills 1 required
  • required, not held test system accessibility for users with special needs required
05 management skills 1 required
  • required, not held assess users' interaction with ICT applications required
06 business, administration and law 6 supplementary
  • optional, not held Agile project management optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management methodologies optional
  • optional, not held Process-based management optional
  • optional, not held business process modelling optional
  • optional, not held lean project management optional
  • optional, not held quality standards optional

2 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a user interface designer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 61 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held ICT security legislation knowledge
  • already held application usability knowledge
  • already held define technical requirements skill
  • already held design graphics skill
  • already held design process skill
  • already held interactive media knowledge
  • already held manage online content skill
  • already held software interaction design knowledge
  • already held task algorithmisation knowledge
  • already held use markup languages skill
  • already held web programming knowledge
  • already held ABAP knowledge
  • already held AJAX knowledge
  • already held APL knowledge
  • already held ASP.NET knowledge
  • already held Agile development knowledge
  • already held Assembly (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held C# knowledge
  • already held C++ knowledge
  • already held COBOL knowledge
  • already held CoffeeScript knowledge
  • already held Common Lisp knowledge
  • already held DevOps knowledge
  • already held Erlang knowledge
  • already held Groovy knowledge
  • already held Haskell knowledge
  • already held Java (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held JavaScript knowledge
  • already held Lisp knowledge
  • already held MATLAB knowledge
  • already held ML (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Objective-C knowledge
  • already held OpenEdge Advanced Business Language knowledge
  • already held PHP knowledge
  • already held Pascal (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Perl knowledge
  • already held Prolog (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Prototyping development knowledge
  • already held Python (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held R knowledge
  • already held Rapid application development knowledge
  • already held Ruby (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held SAP R3 knowledge
  • already held SAS language knowledge
  • already held Scala knowledge
  • already held Scratch (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Smalltalk (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Spiral development knowledge
  • already held Swift (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held TypeScript knowledge
  • already held VBScript knowledge
  • already held Visual Basic knowledge
  • already held Waterfall development knowledge
  • already held analyse business requirements skill
  • already held augmented reality knowledge
  • already held computer programming knowledge
  • already held create software design skill
  • already held incremental development knowledge
  • already held iterative development knowledge
  • already held manage localisation skill
  • already held software design methodologies knowledge
The 2 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 arts and humanities 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held natural language processing optional
08 social sciences, journalism and information 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held cognitive psychology optional
18 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held Adobe Illustrator optional
  • optional, not held Adobe Photoshop optional
  • optional, not held Agile project management optional
  • optional, not held GIMP (graphics editor software) optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management methodologies optional
  • optional, not held Microsoft Visio optional
  • optional, not held Process-based management optional
  • optional, not held SketchBook Pro optional
  • optional, not held Synfig optional
  • optional, not held business process modelling optional
  • optional, not held lean project management optional
  • optional, not held natural language processing optional
  • optional, not held use query languages optional
  • optional, not held web based collaborative platforms optional
  • optional, not held cognitive psychology optional
  • optional, not held perform online data analysis optional
  • optional, not held quality standards optional
  • optional, not held screen reader optional
35 held skills the user interface designer role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role 3D lighting knowledge
  • not needed by the target role 3D texturing knowledge
  • not needed by the target role CryEngine knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Frostbite (digital game creation systems) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role GameSalad knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Gamemaker Studio knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Havok Vision knowledge
  • not needed by the target role HeroEngine knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT performance analysis methods knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Microsoft Visual C++ knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Project Anarchy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role RAGE (digital game creation systems) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Shiva (digital game creation systems) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Source (digital game creation systems) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Unity (digital game creation systems) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Unreal Engine knowledge
  • not needed by the target role animate 3D organic forms skill
  • not needed by the target role apply 3D imaging techniques skill
  • not needed by the target role compose digital game story skill
  • not needed by the target role computer graphics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role create 3D characters skill
  • not needed by the target role create 3D environments skill
  • not needed by the target role create concept of digital game skill
  • not needed by the target role create digital game characters skill
  • not needed by the target role digital game creation systems knowledge
  • not needed by the target role digital game genres knowledge
  • not needed by the target role estimate duration of work skill
  • not needed by the target role formulate game rules skill
  • not needed by the target role hardware platforms knowledge
  • not needed by the target role id Tech knowledge
  • not needed by the target role operate 3D computer graphics software skill
  • not needed by the target role perform resource planning skill
  • not needed by the target role principles of animation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role specify digital game scenes skill
  • not needed by the target role systems development life-cycle knowledge
21 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held ICT accessibility standards required
  • required, not held graphics editor software required
  • required, not held human-computer interaction required
  • required, not held software UI design patterns required
  • required, not held World Wide Web Consortium standards required
  • optional, not held Adobe Illustrator optional
  • optional, not held Adobe Photoshop optional
  • optional, not held Agile project management optional
  • optional, not held GIMP (graphics editor software) optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management methodologies optional
  • optional, not held Microsoft Visio optional
  • optional, not held Process-based management optional
  • optional, not held SketchBook Pro optional
  • optional, not held Synfig optional
  • optional, not held business process modelling optional
  • optional, not held lean project management optional
  • optional, not held natural language processing optional
  • optional, not held web based collaborative platforms optional
  • optional, not held cognitive psychology optional
  • optional, not held quality standards optional
  • optional, not held screen reader optional
Index

Other moves recorded from digital games designer

Full index of moves from digital games designer

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.