What Is A --> UI / UX Web Designer $90,000 A Year

Take a look here for a brief explanation of it: UX Design Defined - User Experience - UX Design

It seems to me that is is a designer/coder that specialize in create interfaces/websites that are good for marketing, user experience, and conversions. As opposed to just a designer who follows your instructions in creating a website, a UI / UX designer would give their opinion on the best way to design it to increase your traffic and sales.

Basically, user interface designer

What are options to paying 90k in the first 1 year ?

-Ed

If you're wanting to hire one then I would just go with a freelancer from oDesk or Freelancer.com unless you needed one to work full-time instead of just on a single project until its completion.

UX - User Experience
UI - User Interface

Two entirely different things, but they both refer to the front end of a site.

For ecommerce sites, it also includes the buy-flow, what us Warriors might to refer to as the site checkout process.

UX might take into issues so as click tendency, varying CSS elements, eye and mouse movement, etc.

HIH

As clearly mentioned above by other warriors, but if you need more information - you can refer to User interface design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

UX design is VERY hard! It's am emerging role at design agencies the world over, because up until recent years, with all online marketplaces becoming much more competitive, user experience has often been overlooked somewhat.

Now, having a good all-round knowledge of how users interact with interfaces is very important, and many people are carving careers for themselves with this knowledge. UX design also involves a lot of user testing, split testing and being reactive to feedback.

It's a good thing to do to make your website reach it's full potential.

Yahoo and MSN should hire someone like that, their designers create the interfaces and think it is the best but its so annoying and hard to use to the users that make them run away lol

It's a very specialised job.

A developer knows "we need something the user clicks to make stuff happen."

A UI designer knows where that thing needs to be, what it needs to look like, and what label needs to be on it so the user understands what will happen when he clicks it.

Most sites have horrible UI/UX design.

For example, go to WarriorPlus.com and set up your free account, then try to find the place where it lists all your WSO purchases. (You don't need to actually purchase any or even configure your PayPal address to check out the UI/UX on this.) The main browser area is full of BIG BOLD LINKS to all kinds of stuff, and "WSO Tracker" sounds promising, but actually your WSO purchases are only accessible through the "my account" link which is hidden way up in the top right corner. Once you click on "my account," you'll see "wso purchase history" in a small unobtrusive font underneath the main menu.

As a result, people come HERE (the Warrior Forum is not affiliated with Warrior Plus) and ask how to find that part of the site. And while most of us here are familiar with W+ and can help, your average site - which will have competitors - faces the very real possibility that while seeking help, a competitor will capture the customer's future business. (Customers are, perversely, more likely to shop where they had a problem which was fixed than they are to shop where they never had a problem at all.)

A large part of why so much web design is so awful is the general inability of a non-UI/UX professional to tell whether a UI/UX professional is any good. The way W+ is laid out makes perfect sense to the developer who did that, and explaining to him that it's actually profoundly stupid would be extremely difficult.

Yes, I agree. A good UI (User Interface) designer can make or break a development company.

UI = User Interface
UX = User Experience