Just some random thoughts:
The idea of Define a designation dictionary for
designers is a really uphill task. The very nature of
designers to be different and not fall into a rules
bucket, is an issues itself. Our responsibilities
stretch across different domains and expertise. While
some of us are formally trained as Interaction
Designers, we do involve ourselves with coding as
well. We do requirements, which should be done by the
business analysts, we do usability testing, which
should be done by cognitive scientists/ergonomic folks
and /or human factors specialists, we do documentation
at times which should be done by technical writers,
etc. Each organization, each group that you belong to
professionally, defines designers as they see fit with
them. I may be called a user experience designer or a
User Interface Designer or a Interaction designer or a
UI/Usabiity analyst or a zillion other things. It's
anyways the work that i do defines who i am and what
value i bring to the organization i work in.
And we have discussed this so many times but I really
hope there is a solution to this :-)
Cheers!
Manish Govind Pillewar
Inactive Designer
Thoughtworks India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
Luis wrote:
"
User interface designer is what we used to call our
web designers, the
guys
that put together the HTML, mostly the ones who dare
to have a little
bit of
an opinion and hate to be called Web Developers
because most recruiters
think you do ASP.NET.
The story says UI designer delivers the interface, the
IxD plans it,
sometimes in this very order :).
Some agencies in London have *Interactive* Designers
which translates
as a
Web Designer with Flash and good design flair; he
codes and designs and
used
to be known as "Das Multimedia Designer" at the time
Macromedia
Director
ruled the earth.
If one is out of work, then they can call themselves
an "inactive
designer"
as well :)
"
Thanks and Regards
Manish Govind Pillewar
Sr. User Interface Designer-UXD
Bangalore-India
Tel. +91 9880566951 (M)
+91 80 41113967 (Eve.)
Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface :-)
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