Russ, I'd tend to interpret functional designer as a synonym of interaction designer. Mostly because it would make sense for a functional designer to be someone who creates a functional spec. And a functional spec talks about the interaction between the software and it's user.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_specification I tend to use the term "engineering design" to mean the backend. Having said that I don't especially like "functional designer" as a term. As you point out, it's rather ambiguous. Cheers --Pete On 18 Oct 2007, at 21:40, Russell Wilson wrote: > I wrote a post on my blog recently about software design which > proposed > calling front-end design "interaction design" and back-end design > "functional > design" -- > http://www.dexodesign.com/2007/10/what-do-we-mean-by-software- > design.html > > Ironically, a few days later our CEO sent me an article from Zigzag > Marketing > addressed to product managers which talked about the importance of the > "functional > designer" to product development, only by "functional designer" > they were > referring > to what we would call interaction design (for the most part). See the > functional designer > article at: http://www.zigzagmarketing.com/articles.asp > > Has anyone come across "functional design" as a term? I thought it > made > sense > for back-end design. > > Best regards, > Russ > > > > > -- > Russell Wilson > Blog: http://www.dexodesign.com > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help > ---------------------------------------------------------- No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. - Croesus of Lydia, 595 - 547 BC Peter Bagnall - http://people.surfaceeffect.com/pete ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
