"Can anyone tell me the difference between these three titles: Interaction Designer, User Experience Designer, User Interface Designer?"
Yes, a Designer can... but not anyone else. :-) Seriously though, designers tend to like to ruminate over what to call things, and nothing more than the name for the craft they practice. It's impossible to find a gathering of designers where the subject doesn't come up. Don't get me wrong, it's not an unimportant topic, but it's mostly inside baseball. Just as there are many different types of Doctors, Lawyers, Architects, Accountants, Musicians, etc. Design is also a diverse profession. Most non-designers don't really care about our sub categorizations and latest in vogue naming trends. Interior Designer, Fashion Designer, Lighting Designer, Automobile Designer... any need to speculate on what someone with that title does? So why not simply Software Designer? Does it capture all the nuance of the craft? No. Does it differentiate me from others in the field that do substantially different work? No. But neither does Interior Designer. Is an interior designer concerned with the experience of the people that use a space? Of course! Is an interior designer concerned with the visual aesthetic of a space? You bet! Does an interior designer care about how someone interacts with items in a space? One would certainly hope. So why is someone of that profession not a UX Designer, or a Visual Designer? or an Interaction Designer... Because the label is not clear. Interior Designers design interiors. At some level all design craft is concerned with experience, aesthetics, interactions, usefulness - naming a particular branch of design (say that of software) around those universal characteristics is bound to be problematic and contentious. And I can absolutely guarantee that will not be the last word on this subject. :-) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38411 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
