While trying to avoid the discussion of defining any of the terms, I
thought I'd write about what I've seen (from my personal experience
and job seeking) in the marketplace in terms of job titles.
Interaction Designer, User Experience Designer and User Interface
Designer are usually interchangeable job titles -- you usually don't
see more than one of these job titles within an organization. I
haven't seen the title User Experience Architect used as much as the
others, but I think it's in this class. There may be differences in
what people with these titles do at different companies, but you
probably couldn't tell based on the job title alone.
Information Architect is sometimes interchangeable with the above
titles, but is occasionally a separate function (i.e., some places
have Information Architects instead of any of the above, while other
places have both IA and UX roles).
Usually a Manager or Director of Interaction Design or Information
Architecture has only Interaction Designers or Information Architects
reporting to them.
A Manager or Director of User Experience may have people with any of
the above titles reporting to them, but is more likely to also have
User Researchers and Visual or Graphic Designers reporting to them.
This seems to support the notion that "User Experience" is emerging as
an umbrella term in practical usage.
Regards, Adam
On Feb 10, 2009, at 12:53 AM, Batyah Rubin wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone tell me the difference between these three titles:
- Interaction Designer
- User Experience Designer
- User Interface designer
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