Web Designer
OFO Code: 216604
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 216604
- Occupation
- Web Designer
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 2166 · Graphic and Multimedia Designers
Official description
Graphic and multimedia designers design information content for visual and audio communication, publication and display using print, film, electronic, digital and other forms of visual and audio media. They create special effects, animation, or other visual images for use in computer games, movies, music videos, print media and advertisements.
More official OFO detail
- Undertaking research and analysing functional communication requirements
- Designing complex graphics and animation to satisfy functional, aesthetic and creative requirements of the design brief
- Supervising or carrying out production in the chosen media
- Negotiating design solutions with clients, management, sales and production staff
- Detailing and documenting the selected design for production
- Creating two-dimensional and three-dimensional images depicting objects in motion or illustrating a process, using computer animation or modelling programs
- Selecting, specifying or recommending functional and aesthetic materials and media for publication, delivery or display
- Preparing sketches, diagrams, illustrations and layouts to communicate design concepts
- Determining the objectives and constraints of the design brief by consulting with clients and stakeholders
- Formulating design concepts for the subject to be communicated
2. Demand status
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
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