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UI Developer

Build the buttons, screens, and animations users actually touch.

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About this career

UI developers (sometimes called front-end developers) live at the boundary between design and engineering. They turn mockups into accessible, fast, beautiful interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks like React. A great fit if you care about how things look and feel, not just whether they work.

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Skills you'll build

HTML

The markup language that defines the structure of every web page.

CSS

The styling language that controls how web pages look — colors, layout, animations.

JavaScript

The programming language of the web. Runs in browsers and on servers (via Node.js).

TypeScript

JavaScript with types. Catches bugs before you run the code.

React

The most popular library for building interactive user interfaces with components.

UX Fundamentals

Principles of designing screens people can actually use — accessibility, hierarchy, feedback.

Git

The version-control tool every software team uses to track and merge changes.

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