Frontend design involves creating the HTML, CSS, and presentational JavaScript code that makes up a user interface. A frontend designer (who may also go by UI developer, client-side developer, UI engineer, design engineer, frontend architect, designer/developer, prototyper, unicorn, or Bo Jackson) lives in a purgatory between worlds.

Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. Other web design areas include graphic web design, user interface design authoring, standardised code and proprietary software, user experience design, and search engine optimization