The Solution. Wipe out the entire design colony and start afresh and just name anyone who does work in any of these areas as a Designer.
You become a senior as you add the various specialities into your arsenal. You identify yourself by the various specialities you have worked in as well as academically gotten them. Thats a solution!!! ;P I create, design, architect , produce .......but ultimately what I care about is if the customer is happy and enjoys the end product. On 1/25/08, Manish Pillewar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 :-) > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it > now. > http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ > ________________________________________________________________ > *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* > February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA > Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ 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
