Don’t stop calling yourself a UX designer – it’s working

Re:Don’t stop calling yourself a UX designer – it’s working by dmix on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @01:15PM (#2917400)

The day I stopped calling myself a UX Designer was when I attended a "UX" meetup in Toronto. The extent of skill of every person there, who called themselves UX Designers, was creating wireframes for corporate gigs.

They were the guys who handed off wireframes and stories to the photoshop designers who handed it to the HTML/CSS coders.

I was hoping UX Designer would encapsulate someone who knew the full spectrum of ux research/design/photoshop/html/css/marketing for building software.

But thats not the way it turned out.

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Re:Don’t stop calling yourself a UX designer – it’s working by OzzyB on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @01:34PM (#2917461)

^ this.

That is 100% my experience too, and it's complete bs imo.

Between the co-opting of "interactive designer", "web designer" and "ux designer" I am just happy to call myself a developer now.

A developer who also knows a thing or too about design, and yes, user experience too (duh! isn't that a given?)

I will do this until people realize that developers, in this web/app/tech industry, are really the designers -- and it will happen one day :)

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Re:Don’t stop calling yourself a UX designer – it’s working by aaronblohowiak on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @01:26PM (#2917427)

If you weren't founder of carelogger (which looks awesome, btw) how would someone effectively recruit someone that knew the full spectrum of ux research/design/photoshop/html/css/marketing ?

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